, by Scaliger named the Varro of the age, was a learned Italian,
, by Scaliger named
the Varro of the age, was a learned Italian, whose proper
name was Ludovico Celio Richeri. He was born at Rovigo'
about 1450, and studied at Ferrara and Padua, and France.
On his return to Italy, he filled the office of public professor
at Rovigo for some years, but in 1503 opened a school at
Vicenza, where he continued till 1508, when he was in*
vited to Ferrara by duke Alfonzo I. In the year 1515,
Francis I. nominated him to the chair of Greek and Latin
eloquence in Milan, as successor to Demetrius Chalcondylas. In 1521 he returned to Padua, and in 1523 he was
deputed from his native place to Venice, to congratulate
the new doge. In 1525 he died of grief, on account of the
defeat and capture of Francis at the battle of Pavia. His
principal work is entitled “Antiques Lectiones,
” of which
he published sixteen books at Venice, in 1516, fol. and
fourteen more were added after his death in the editions of
Basil, 1566, and Francforr, 1666. Vossius expresses his
wonder, and even indignation, that so learned a miscellany
was so little known.