, another learned Italian, was born at Padua Oct. 12, 1571, and after
, another learned Italian,
was born at Padua Oct. 12, 1571, and after being educated among the Jesuits, became confessor to a nunnery,
and parish priest of St. Lawrence, to which a canonry of
Treviso was added by cardinal Barberini. He was in habits of intimacy with many of the most illustrious men of
his time, and collected a valuable library and cabinet of antiquities. He died of the plague in 1631. He distinguished
himself by deep researches into antiquity, and published
the “Mensa Isiaca,
” and some other pieces, which illustrate
the antiquities and hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, and
gained him the reputation of a man accurately as well as
profoundly learned. He was also skilled in writing verses,
consisting of panegyrics, epitaphs, and a long poem inscribed to pope Urbao VIII. It must be remembered to
the honour of Pignorius, that the great Galileo procured
an offer to be made to him, of the professorship of polite
literature and eloquence in the university of Pisa; which
his love of studious retirement and his country made him
decline. He wrote much, in Italian, as well as in Latin.
G. Vossius has left a short but honourable testimony of
him and says, that he was “ob eximiam eruditionem
atque humanitatem mini charissimus vir.
”