, in his native language called Vander Beken, a very learned man,
, in his native language called
Vander Beken, a very learned man, who flourished not
long after the restoration of letters, was born at Ghent, in
Flanders, in 1525, and educated at Louvain, Thence he
went to Bologna, in order to study the civil law and antiquities; where he so distinguished himself by his skill in
polite literature, and particularly in poetry, that he became
known all over Italy, and acquainted with all the learned of
Rome, Venice, and Padua. He was not only a man of
learning, but of business also; and hence, after returning
to his own country, was thought a fit person to be employed
in several embassies. He took holy orders, and at length
was raised to the bishopric of Antwerp. Hence he was
translated to the metropolitical church of Mechlin, where
he died in 15;<5, at seventy years of age. He* founded a
college of Jesuits at Louvain, the place of his education, to
which he left his library, coins, &c. Besides an octavo
volume of “Latin poems,
” printed by Plantin, at Antwerp,
in Commentaries upon Suetonius and
Horace;
” the former printed in Commentaries.
” Fabricius, speaking of explications and emendations of Horace, says, that he and Lambinus were men of great learning and critical talents, and had carefully consulted the
best manuscripts, but it is thought that Torrentius had intrusted the collation to some person who had not his own
accuracy