, the son of Antonio Aulisio, was born at Naples, Jan. 14, 1649 (or
, the son of Antonio Aulisio, was
born at Naples, Jan. 14, 1649 (or 1639, according to Diet. Hist.), studied Latin under Floriati and Martena, and made
such rapid and successful progress in his other studies,
that at the age of nineteen, he taught rhetoric and poetry
with reputation. We are also told, that he understood,
and could write and speak all the languages of the East and
West, and that he acquired a knowledge of them without
the aid of a master. He was equally well acquainted with
the sciences, and yet with all this knowledge he was for a
long time extremely poor, owing to the loss of his father
and mother, and the charge of a younger brother and five
sisters. At the age of twenty-six he taught as professorextraordinary, without any salary, but about eight years
after he obtained the chair of the institutes, which was
worth about one hundred ducats, and at forty he held that
of the code, worth one hundred and forty. From his
forty-sixth year to the end of his life, he was principal
professor of civil law, with a salary of 1100 ducats. He
died Jan. 29, 1717, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
As he had been a public teacher at Naples about fifty years,
he acquired, according to custom, the title of Count Palestine, and was interred with the honours due to that rank.
For twenty-three years, also, he had been superintendant
of the school of military architecture, by order of Charles
II. with a salary of twenty-five ducats per month. During
all this time he lived a retired life, and had no ambition
to exchange it for the bustle of ambition. In the course
of his studies, he became a great admirer of Plato, and
when his maternal uncle Leonardi di Capoa, wrote a work
agreeable to the principles of Des Cartes, Aulisio became
his antagoist but instead of argument, substituted satirical
verses, which contributed little to his own fame, and excited the displeasure of his uncle’s learned friends. This
dispute induced him to break off all correspondence with
them, and employ his time on several works, particularly,
1. “De Gymnasii constructione De Mausolei architectura; de Harmonia Timaica, et numeric niedicis.
” These
three were printed in a quarto volume, Naples, 1694.
2. “Commentarii juris civilis ad tit. Pandect.
” 3 vols. 4to.
3. “Delle Scuole sacre,
” Historia deortu
et progressu Medicinse,
” Venice, Scuole sacre.
”