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- ' chronology. It mufl be allowed too, that h n con-
- ' fulcd by endeavouring to he tc- ; tli.it i.r i-> too !u!l of
44 di-.'ilions and fubdivifions; and that he afKi_ls too con- 44 drained a method." Lorenzo Braflo fays, " th..t thou -. 4 ' there is more labour than ge-nius in Alftedius's woilcs, yet 4 ' they are erteemed, ;>nd his indultry b.i , , :S 4C gained him admittance into the temple <>f fame." All. - dius, in his Triumphus Biblicus," endeavours to prove, that the materials and principles of all the .uti and Iciences may be found in the Sa iptuies ; but hr gained v. , o his 'pi:u <:i. John Himmcii-.is wrote a piece againft his " Thco- 4i lo^ia Polemic," which was one of the Sell performances of Aldedius, .'c a.uft not omit, that he was a millenarian, h.'.in: publiiljjd in 1672, a treat ifo in;itlcd 44 D^ mill- tc .-ir.nis," wherein he afierts that the faithful fhall reign with JeTus Chrift upon earth a thoufand years; after which vili be the genrral rcfurreclion, and the laft judgeme'nt ; and he pretended that this reign vould commence in the year 1694. ALTILIUS (GABRIEL), a Neapolitan of the 1410 cen- tury, was chiefly eftecmed for his Latin poetry, which con- tributed to his advancement at the court of Ferdinand king of Naples : for at this court there ftill remained fomewhat of the good taile, which had been introduced there in the reign of Alphonfo. He was appointed preceptor to the young prince Ferdinand ; and was employed alfo in flate affairs, having accompanied Jovian Pontauus to Rome, upon a negotiation of peace between king Ferdinand and popeTraftaf. de Innocent VIII. Pontanus had a great friendfhip and affec- Magnificent; lion for Ahilius, as appears from his works: Sannazarius hasdrg. IT. alfo given him marks of e'reem in his poems. Bafil Zan- ver- '7- .. chius and John Matthu'us Tufcanus ha e like^vife paid him e ' era feveral compliments in their works. The poem called 4; Epithalamium," which Altiiius compofed on the mairia-e of habelia of Arra-ron, is accounted one of the finelt of his poems, though Julius Scaliger thinks there is too threat a profulion of thought and expreffion in this performance: 44 Gabriel Ahilius," fays he, "compofed an exc 11 nt epi- Poc-icrs, 44 thalamium^ which would have been flill better ^-ul he re- lih - vi - 4 ' irraincd his genius; but by endeavouring to f . y e-veij p * ^ ' 44 thing upon the liibje-dl, he difgufts the reader as much in 44 fome places, as he gives him pleafure ii, >.;lieis: he f.. 4 ' too much, which is a fault peculiar to his nation, for in -,. 4b ;hat traui of Italy they have a continual dJ'ue of ulking." N 4 1C
