, a native of Crete, became a very eminent Greek printer about the
, a native of Crete, became
a very eminent Greek printer about the end of the fifteenth
century, which business he carried on first at Venice, and
afterwards at Rome. He had a principal concern in the
compilation as well as printing of the “Etymologicuru
magnum,
” printed at Venice in 1499, and printed in the
same year Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s categories. His edition of Pindar, with Greek scholia collected
by himself, appeared at Rome in 1515, 4to, and was the
first Greek book printed in that city. He also printed,
which is thought to be the second Greek book executed at
Rome, an edition of Theocritus, 1516, 8vo. Reiske considers it among the most accurate and complete of the
early editions of Theocritus, and it was the first with the
scholia. It is now both scarce and dear. An edition of
Piuivorinus’s Lexicon was also published by Calliergus, at
Rome, 1523. Of the personal history of this learned and
ingenious printer we have no account. Erasmus calls him
"juvenis exunie doctus,' and Gyraldus speaks of him as
having been of a family of some rank.
, a learned Jesuit, was a native of Crete, and supposed to be descended from the imperial
, a learned Jesuit, was a
native of Crete, and supposed to be descended from the
imperial family of the Palseologi. He went to Rome in
pursuit of knowledge, and entered himself a member of the
society of Jesus. He was afterwards professor of philosophy, and then of theology in the university of Padua, rector of the Greek college in Rome, and censor of the inquisition. He was honoured with the esteem and friendship
of pope Urban VIII. who appointed him chaplain to his
nephew cardinal Francis Barberini, when he was sent papal
legate into France. He died at Rome Dec. 24, 1625. He
was suspected to be the author of a work entitled “Admonitio ad Regem Ludovicum XIII.
” which attacked the
authority of the kings of France, in matters of an ecclesiastical nature. This treatise brought the Jesuits into general disrepute; it was likewise censured by the faculty of
the Sorbonne, and the assembly of the clergy at Paris in
1626, and condemned by the parliament. He merits notice here, however, chiefly for having frequently entered
the lists of controversy with many eminent English divines,
who wrote against popery about the beginning of the
seventeenth century, particularly Burhill, Prideaux, Abbot, and Collins, but the titles of his works may now be
spared.