, in Latin Capycius, a native of Naples, and a Latin poet of the
, in Latin Capycius, a native of Naples, and a Latin poet of the sixteenth century, attempted
to imitate Lucretius, in his poem of the “Principles of
things,
” Frankfort, 1631, 8vo, with considerable success.
Cardinal Bembo and Manucius placed this work on a level
with his model, to which high praise it is scarcely entitled.
An edition, with an Italian translation, was given in 8vo,
at Venice, in 1704. He also composed elegies, epigrams,
and a poem “De Vate maximo,
” i. e. St. John the Baptist, which Gesner, doubtless a great friend of the poet,
equalled with the productions of antiquity.