talian and Latin poet, was born at Naples, July 28, 1458. His family is said to have been originally of Spanish extraction, but settled at an Dearly period at Santo
, vernacularly Giacomo Sannazaro, a celebrated Italian and Latin poet, was born at Naples, July 28, 1458. His family is said to have been originally of Spanish extraction, but settled at an Dearly period at Santo Nazaro, a flourishing town situated between' the Tessino and the Poj where it was long conspicuous for nobility and opulence. Reduced at length by the calamities of war, the more immediate progenitors of our poet removed to Naples. His father dying while this son was very young, his mother, unable from her poverty, to keep up her former rank, retired with her family to Nocera di Pagani, in Umbria, where Sannazarius passed a considerable portion of his youth. He had previously to his removal from Naples acquired the elements of the Greek and Latin languages, under the tuition of Junianus Maius, who conceiving a high opinion of his talents, prevailed on his mother to return again to Naples, where he might continue his education. Here he was admitted a member of the Academia Pontana, and took the name of Actius Sync-ems. He had formed an early attachment of the most tender kind to Carmosina Bonifacia, a young Neapolitan lady, but not being a favoured lover, uttered his disappointment in many of those querulous sonnets and canzoni which are still extant. In compositions of this kind Sannazarius is considered as having surpassed every other poet from the days of Petrarch. To dissipate his uneasiness, he tried the effect of travelling; but on his return, his grief was heightened by the report of the death of his mistress. She is understood to be the lamented Phyllis of his Italian and Latin poems.
, of Spanish extraction, but to be classed among English divines,
, of Spanish extraction, but to
be classed among English divines, was a native of Artois,
where he was born in 1531. Of his early years we have
no account. In 1582 he was invited to Leyden to be professor of divinity, and was preacher in the French church
there. Having studied the controversy respecting church
government, he inclined to that of episcopacy, and in 1587
came to England where he was well received hy some of
thie prelates and divines of that day, particularly Whitgift,
archbishop of Canterbury. He first settled at Jersey,
where he taught a school, and preached to his countrymen,
who were exiles there. He was appointed master of the
tree grammar-school at Southampton, where Nicholas
Fuller, the most renowned critic of his age, received his
education principally under him, and he also educated sir
Thomas Lake, secretary of state to James I. He was successively promoted to a prebend in the churches of Gloucester, Canterbury, and Westminster. He displayed great
learning in defence of episcopacy against Beza, when that
divine recommended the abolition of it in Scotland. He
died in 1613, at the age of eighty-two, and was interred
in Canterbury cathedral, where there is a monument to
his memory. All his works were published in 1611, one
v.oL folio. He must have acquired a very considerable
knowledge of the English language, as we find his name
in the first class of those whom king James I. employed in
the new translation of the Bible. He lived in great intimacy with his fellow labourer in the cause of episcopacy,
the celebrated Hooker. “These two persons,
” says Walton, “began a holy friendship, increasing daily to so high
and mutual affections, that their two wills seemed to be but
one and the same.
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