, was born in Liesena, an island in Dalmatia, in the Gulf of Venice,
, was born in Liesena, an
island in Dalmatia, in the Gulf of Venice, in 1572, and
was introduced by the celebrated sir Henry Wotton, the
ambassador there, to the notice of king James I. He was
by that prince sent with a secret commission to the duke of
Savoy, and was afterwards made a gentleman of the bedchamber, and received the honour of knigfithodct. His
elegant “History of the Civil Wars betwixt the houses of
York and Lancaster,
” which was written in Italian, and
translated into English by Henry Carey, earl of Monmouth, gained him great reputation. It should be observed that, like other foreign writers of our English story,
he has strangely disfigured the proper names. His history
was first printed at Venice, 1637, 3 vols. 4to, and at Bologna in 1647. The English translation appeared in 1641.
The subsequent troubles in England prevented him from
continuing it as he intended. He also wrote some Italian
romances. He married a sister of sir Theodore Mayerne,
and went from England to the canton of Berne, where he
died in 1644.