, is said to have been the real name of a German author, who, tinder
, is said
to have been the real name of a German author, who,
tinder the fictitious one of Publius Porcius Porcellus, wrote
the Latin poem entitled “Pugna porcorum,
” consisting of
Nugae venales,
” &c. We have followed Baillet in- calling him Peter Placentinus, but Le Clerc says that his
name was John Leo Placentius, a Dominican monk, who
died about 1548, and that he composed an history of the
bishops of Tongres, Maestricht, and Liege, taken out of
fabulous memoirs, and several poems besides the “Pugna
Porcorum.
” In this last he imitated one Theobaldus,. a
Benedictine monk, who flourished in the time of Charles
the Bald, to whom he presented a panegyric on baldness,
every word of which began with the letter C (calvities, baldness). Placentinus is said to have had another object,