1st of October, 1721. He left behind him an Exposition of the Council of Trent, which was never printed. times sent as legate from his native city to Charles V. He was governor of Rome, then apostolical vice-chamberlain, vicar of the pope, a dignity never, before or since, ARCHINTO, GIUSEPPE, a jurist, son of conferred upon any other than a cardinal; Bartolommeo Archinto and Margherita Terbishop of S. Sepolchro; in 1549, bishop zaga, was born at Milan about the middle of of Saluzzo; and, ultimately, archbishop of the sixteenth century. He filled several imMilan. By Pope Paul IV. he was sent as portant posts in the administration of his nalegate extraordinary to the Venetian Republic, tive city, and was made regal ducal senator with the authority of legate a latere. He by Philip III., king of Spain, in the year 1606. died in Bergamo on the 21st of June, 1558. His death took place in the year 1610. He His life has been written by Gian Pietro published a collection entitled " Compendium Guissano, published at Como, 1611, 4to. His omnium Ordinationum factarum per Senaworks are 1. "Oratio de Nova Christiani tum Mediolani Annis MDXCVIII. et MDXCIX. Orbis Pace habita," Rome, 1544, 4to. 2. "De ad relationem Comitis J. Archinti ab eodem Fide et Sacramentis, Libri II.," Rome, 1545, collectæ," Milan, 4to. Two of his letters are 4to.; published again at Ingolstadt in 1546, printed in Part II. of the "Idea del Segre4to., and at Turin, 1549, 4to. 3." Attes-tario" of B. Zucchi, pp. 156, 157., Venice, tatio de Ordine in Urbe observari solito in Processionibus, in quibus Canonici Regulares Monasterii S. Maria de Pace præferuntur Monachis Monasterii S. Pauli;" inserted in the work entitled "Allegationes diversorum in Causa Præcedentiæ ortæ in Concilio Tridentino inter Canonicos Regulares et Monachos Cistercienses," Cremona, 1567, fol. He left many orations, &c. in manuscript, which are preserved in the family library at Milan. ARCHINTO, FILIPPO, COUNT, son of Count Carlo Archinto and the Countess Caterina Aresi, was born in Milan in the year 1649. He became a member of the Collegio de' Nobili Giurisconsulti in Milan, was quæstor of the Magistrati delle Rendite Straordinarie, and royal ducal senator. In 1677 he was sent by Charles II., king of Spain, envoy to the Emperor Leopold, and afterwards chosen to be prime minister to the Prince Alessandro Farnese, in the government of Flanders. He was podestà of Cremona from 1692 to 1694, and died at Milan in the year 1720. His works are: 1. "Il Soglio di Salomone eretto del Tempio della Virtù per lo ricevimento nell' Università di Brera del Sig. Cardinale Luigi Omodeo," Milan, 8vo. 2. "Diario di tutto ciò che gli è occorso alla Corte di Vienna, durante la sua Incombenza d'Inviato alla medesima di Carlo II., Ré di Spagna.' This journal was never printed, and fills six volumes. 3. His letters to princes, cardinals, and particularly to the Duke of Parma and Placentia, with the answers to them occupy twelve folio volumes in manuscript, and are in the possession of his descendants. ARCHINTO, GIROLAMO, archbishop of Tarsus, was born at Milan about the year 1671. In 1696 he became a member of the college of jurisconsults, but finally entered the church, and after obtaining many dignities was made titular archbishop of Tarsus. He was sent as nuncio to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and afterwards legate a latere to Germany; ultimately he went as nuncio to Frederick Augustus, king of Poland, but died immediately on his arrival in Warsaw, on the 1606, 4to. ARCHINTO, GIUSEPPE, cardinal and archbishop of Milan, son of Carlo Archinto, Count of Tainate, and Caterina Aresi, born at Milan in the year 1651. After taking his degree in law at Pavia, he embraced the ecclesiastical state, and was appointed by Pope Innocent XI., vice-legate of Bologna, which office he filled during six years so much to the satisfaction of the pope, that he sent him as apostolic nuncio to Bologna. He was afterwards appointed by succeeding pontiffs nuncio to the republic of Venice and to the court of Spain. By Innocent XII. he was made archbishop of Milan on the 18th of May, 1699, and on the 14th of November of the same year cardinal, with the title of Santa Prisca. He was appointed legate a latere from Clement XI. in order to celebrate the marriage between Philip V., king of Spain, and the Princess of Savoy at Nizza di Provenza. He died on the 9th of April, 1712. A medal was struck in honour of him (see Museum Mazzuchellianum) bearing on the obverse his effigy, with the words Joseph S. R. E. Card. Archintus Arch. Med.," and on the reverse his family arms, with the motto "Haurietis in Gaudio. Isai. xii." He wrote-1. "Cœlum ex Terra, Oratio de Spiritûs Sancti Adventu, habita Anno 1670," Rome, 1670, 4to.; 2. "Relatio Legationis a Latere, qua Philippum V., Hispaniarum et Indiarum Regem, Nicææ in Provincia cum Sabaudiæ Ducis Filia Matrimonio junxit ;' 3. "Epistolæ plures cum esset Nuncius Apostolicus ; 4." Acta Visitationis Oppidi Abbiati Crassi per Danielem Porrum Cancellarium Archiepiscopalensem collecta." last three have not been printed. 66 The ARCHINTO, OTTAVIO, COUNT, was born at Milan towards the end of the sixteenth century. Like the other members of his family he filled various high and important offices in his native city. In the year 1642, Philip III., king of Spain, conferred upon him the countship of Barato. He died on the 13th of June, 1656. He devoted much time and attention to the antiquities of his native dis in which Thrasybulus made his proposition: the consequence was that Lysias did not obtain the citizenship, and he continued in the rank of an Isoteles. The corrupt passage in the pseudo-Plutarch is judiciously amended by Taylor; and, consistently with this amendment, Thrasybulus must have been the person who was prosecuted, and not Lysias, as it is sometimes stated. It is very probable that Æschines and the pseudo-Plutarch refer to the same event: the only difference is, that Æschines has described it with less particularity. trict, of which he formed a very complete | prosecuted Thrasybulus for the illegal mode collection; all his writings have a reference to this subject they are, 1. "Epilogati Racconti della Antichità e Nobiltà della Famiglia Archinta, e de' suoi Privilegj ; aggiuntavi una breve Esposizione degli Antichi Marmi, che ne' Palagj di questa Famiglia si leggono." Milan, 1648, fol. This work was published anonymously. 2. "Collectanea Antiquitatum" (in the Palazzo of Archinto), fol. This work is exceedingly rare, but there is a copy in the Imperiali library at Rome. His unpublished works, eight in number, are deposited in the Archintean library at Milan; of these may be mentioned: 1. "A Description of all the Gems collected by himself and his Ancestors; " 2. "Mediolanensium Familiarum Monumenta," 3 vols. fol.; 3. "Insignia Familiarum Mediolani ; 4. "Collectanea Inscriptionum Veterum;" 5. " Decreti Ducali e Gridarii dal Principio del Governo del Duca di Terranuova sino all' Anno 1654." (Argellati, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium; Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d'Italia; Morigi, La Nobiltà di Milano, edit. 1619, pp. 152, 153, &c.; Grosses Vollständiges Universal-Lexicon and Supplement; Ersch und Grüber, Allgemeine Encyclopädie; Cardella, Memorie Storiche de' Cardinali; Saxius, Archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium Series, iii. 1009— 1016. and 1171-1183.; Vagliano, Sommario delle Vite degli Arcivescovi di Milano, pp. 330-339., and 431-436.) J. W. J. ARCHI'NUS ('Apxîvos), a native of Coele in Attica, was one of those Athenian exiles who, with Thrasy bulus and others, occupied the fortress of Phyle, and, after overthrowing the thirty tyrants, re-established the Athenian democracy B. c. 403. Demosthenes attributes to Archinus the chief share in this revolution, and he adds that he distinguished himself on many occasions as a statesman and general. He is also mentioned by Dinarchus as a leading politician after the re-establishment of the democracy. Archinus co-operated with Thrasybulus in passing the law for a general amnesty, which was enacted after the restoration of the democracy; and he proposed and carried a law for the protection of those who might be harassed by prosecutions contrary to the terms of the amnesty. Archinus also proposed and carried a measure (pioμa) for honouring those who had aided in the restoration of the democracy: this event was recorded in an inscription on the Metroum, which was near the senate-house. Eschines alleges it as an instance of the strict integrity of Archinus, that, though on friendly terms with Thrasybulus, he prosecuted him in the form usual on such occasions (ypáψατο παρανόμων) for bringing forward some measure which was contrary to law. The pseudo-Plutarch, in the life of Lysias the orator, states that Thrasybulus proposed to give the citizenship of Athens to Lysias for his services to the state, and that Archinus Archinus was the person who moved and carried the law in the archonship of Eucleides, B. c. 403, which established the new mode of writing in public documents; for that the law referred to public and not to private documents is pretty certain, as Clinton correctly remarks. The change consisted in adopting twenty-four instead of the sixteen letters then in use at Athens: thus, for instance, before the archonship of Eucleides, the same letter was used on inscriptions both for the short e and the long e (e and n). Consequently the form of the letters on inscriptions after the time of Eucleides would be different from that of the letters on inscriptions before that date; and Plutarch, in his Life of Aristides (c. i.), uses this distinction as a proof that a certain public document to which he refers could not relate to Aristides the Just. Suidas speaks of this change as an adoption of the Ionic characters. The term Attic characters was equivalent to ancient. (Harpocration, 'ATTIkoîs гpáuμaoi, and the note of H. Valesius.) 66 Funeral orations (èmiтápio λóyo) by Archinus are mentioned by Photius (Cod. 260.) in conjunction with those of Thucydides and Lysias. Archinus is also mentioned in the Menexenus" of Plato as a man qualified to pronounce funeral orations, which passage Dionysius of Halicarnassus (On the Eloquence of Demosthenes, c. 23.) has misunderstood, for he states that Plato says in the "Menexenus that he wrote that piece in imitation of Archinus and Dion; whereas Plato merely speaks of Archinus or Dion as likely to be selected to pronounce a particular funeral oration. (Eschines, De Falsa Legat., c. 54., Against Ctesiphon, 62. 65.; Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, c. 34.; Isocrates, Against Callimachus, c. 1.; Suidas, Zaμíwv å Anμos.) G. L. ARCHIPPUS (AрXITπоs), a Comic poet of Athens, was a contemporary of Ameipsias, and consequently belonged to the old Attie comedy. It is recorded that in B. C. 416 (Ol. 91.) he gained a victory in comedy, but further particulars are not known about him. If we may believe the Scholiast on the "Wasps of Aristophanes, Archippus was chiefly notorious for the coarseness and vulgarity of his poetry, which drew upon him the ridicule of his contemporaries. We know the titles and possess fragments of six comedies of Archippus. The most celebrated among them was entitled "The Fishes" ('Ixus), in which he appears to have held up to ridicule the gluttony of the Athenians, and more especially their fondness for fish. The fishes, which probably formed the chorus of the play, made war upon the Athenians to avenge their wrongs. At last, however, a treaty of peace was concluded; the Athenian prisoners were restored, but those who had been most conspicuous as fish-eaters, such as the tragic poet Melanthius, and some other gluttons, were surrendered to the fishes to be devoured. This play must have been performed after the year B. C. 403, that is, after the archonship of Euclides (Athenæus, vii. 329.). The names of the five remaining plays are ̓Αμφιτρύων, Ἡρακλῆς Γαμῶν, Όνου Σκία, Πλού- | τος, and Ρίνων. The first of these seems to have been a play similar to the "Amphitruo" of Plautus, but the fragments of this as well as of the four other plays are scarcely sufficient to give us any idea of the plays themselves. There are also about a dozen fragments of Archippus which are quoted without any mention of the plays to which they belonged. It is remarkable that four comedies, viz. "Poetry," "Shipwreck," "The Islands," and "Niobus," which are usually reckoned among the last plays of Aristophanes, are attributed by some of the ancients to Archippus. The Greek grammarians have preserved several words and expressions peculiar to Archippus. (A. Meineke, Historia Critica Comicor. Græcor. p. 205-210., where all the passages of the ancients referring to Archippus are collected.) L. S. ARCHITA, a painter of Perugia, where he was born in 1560. There are three frescoes by him in the church of San Sebastiano, outside the walls of Rome, representing Saints Girolamo, Bernardo, and Carlo. He died in 1635. (Titi, Pitture, &c. di Roma; Pascoli, Vite de' Pittori, &c.) R. N. W. ARCHON, LOUIS, or, according to Oroux, JEAN LOUIS, was born at Riom in Auvergne, on the 4th of September, 1645. At the age of fifteen he went to Paris for the purpose of completing his education. In the year 1670 he obtained the canonry of St. Amable at Riom, and was subsequently appointed chaplain to the king, Louis XIV., through the interest of the Cardinal de Bouillon. The cardinal also created for him the post of keeper of the ornaments of the king's chapel. In 1678 the king appointed him to the abbey of Saint-Gilbert-Neuf-Fontaines, in the diocese of Clermont. He died at Riom on the 25th of February, 1717. He wrote "Histoire Ecclésiastique de la Chapelle des Rois de France, sous les trois Races de nos Rois jusqu'au Règne de Louis XIV." 2 vols. Paris, 1704 and 1711, 4to. The first volume comprises the history of the royal chapel under the kings of the first and | second race; the second volume that of the chapel under the kings of the third race up to and exclusive of Louis XIV., with a list of the grand almoners, first almoners, confessors, and principal officers of the chapel. A third volume was advertised to continue the history during the reign of Louis XIV., but was never published. This work was mentioned favourably by the journals of the time; but it has been treated with much severity by later writers. Oroux, in his preface, brings together the criticisms of the Abbé Goujet and the Abbé de Camps-the former of whom objects to the lengthy and unnecessary digressions, the ill-digested learning, disfigurement of proper names, &c.; while the latter characterises the work as composed with every possible sort of negligence-without chronology, without dates, without order in the narration of facts; authors misquoted, and confusion everywhere. Le Long states in 1771 that Oroux was engaged in the preparation of a new edition of this work; but as such an edition was never published, it may be presumed that the work with which Oroux was occupied was his own ecclesiastical history. (Moréri, Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, edit. 1759; Oroux, Histoire Ecclésiastique de la Cour de France, 1777, ii. 518, 519.; Richard et Giraud, Bibliothèque Sacrée, iii. 29.; Le Long, Bibliothèque Historique de la France, edit. Fevret de Fontette, iii. 192.) J. W. J. ARCHY'TAS ('Apxúτas) was a native of Tarentum and the son of Mnesagoras, according to some authorities, but of Hestiæus, according to his biographer, Aristoxenus. He is classed among the Pythagoræans, and is sometimes considered the eighth teacher in descent from Pythagoras. His period is fixed by the fact of his being a contemporary of the philosopher Plato, whom he is said to have saved from the vengeance of the younger Dionysius, the tyrant, by a letter of which Diogenes Laertius has preserved a copy (iii. Plato). The accession of Dionysius is fixed at B. c. 367, and he was expelled from Syracuse about eleven years and a half later. Archytas was shipwrecked and drowned on the coast of Apulia, as Horace (Carm. i. 28.) states: at least we may consider this ode of Horace as evidence of such a tradition. The reputation of Archytas was very great, and his character was irreproachable. He was distinguished as a general, and he commanded the forces of his native state for seven years, though the constitution only allowed the same man to be in command for one year. Aristoxenus says that he never sustained a defeat. Diogenes does not enumerate any writings of Archytas, but a long list of them may be collected from various other authorities. He was a philosopher, a mathematician, and a writer on music and geometry, politics, and ethics. Simplicius attributes to him a work on Opposites ('Avtikeiμéva), to which he says that Aristotle was indebted for what he says on this subject in his Categories (c. 10.). His Harmonicon is quoted by Nicomachus in his Arithmetic. He wrote a work on Mind and Perception (Пeрì Nov кaì Aiolńσews); and a treatise on the Nature of the Universe (Пepì тoû Navтds Þúσlos), written in the Doric dialect, is attributed to him, but probably on insufficient grounds. In this work the author distributes all things into ten classes, commonly called Categories or Prædicaments, which is said to be the origin of Aristotle's division. Fragments of the works attributed to him "On the Good and Happy Man," and "On Wisdom," are also extant. That he was a man of note appears from the fact of Aristotle having written three books on his philosophy (Diogenes Laertius, v. Aristotle), and also having made excerpts from his writings. It Duplicationis," Göttingen, 1798, 8vo. appears that Archytas was the first who attempted this problem. Three other persons of the name of Archytas are enumerated by Diogenes Laertius. One of Mitylene is called a musician or writer on music; a second wrote on agriculture, and is cited by Varro and Columella; a third was a writer of epigrams in the Greek sense, and he may be the Archytas of Amphissa who is mentioned by Plutarch. To this list some add a fifth, an architect, who wrote a work on some mechanical contrivance, the first few words of which are cited by Laertius. (Fabricius, Biblioth. Græc., i. 831., where most of the necessary references are given.) G. L. ARCIMBOLDI. A noble Milanese family, originally from Parma, which appears to have been settled in Milan from the early part of the fifteenth century until 1727, when, according to Litta, it became extinct. It gave four archbishops to Milan. The following members principally deserve notice: son of Among the mathematical problems which Archytas solved or attempted to solve was the duplication of the cube, for which purpose he attempted to find two mean proportionals ANTONELLO ARCIMBOLDI was between the two right lines formed by the Giovanni Angelo, archbishop of Milan, besection of a cylinder, as Laertius expresses fore that prelate became an ecclesiastic. It is it. Eutocius, in his Commentary on the not known when he was born, but he took Sphere of Archimedes (book ii. prop. 2.) has his degree of doctor of laws at Pavia in the preserved this solution of Archytas, in which year 1556. He was apostolical prothonotary, the cylinder is employed, but in far too com- abbot commentatario of the abbeys of Viboldoplicated a manner to allow us to imitate no and Carsenzago. Philip II., king of Spain, Laertius, and describe it in a few words. On created him senator of Milan in 1567, and he this subject the reader may consult the was enrolled among the academici affidati, Penny Cyclopædia, Duplication of the with the name "l'Avvertito." He died at Cube." Among his mechanical inventions Milan in 1578. He was well versed in the is mentioned a wooden pigeon that could fly, Greek language, from which he made the of which Gellius (x. 12.) speaks particularly. following translations : - 1. "D. Basilii The invention of a rattle (λarayń), perhaps Magni Homiliæ Octo Antonello Arcimboldo a child's toy, is also attributed to him. A vertente," Milan, 1569, 4to. 2. "D. Basilii letter of Archytas to Plato, and Plato's Magni de vera et incorrupta Virginitate Liber, reply, are preserved by Laertius. A. A. Interprete," Milan, 1573, 4to. 3. "S. Basilii Magni de Gratiarum Actione Liber e Græco in Latinum translatus," Milan, 4to. Gregorii Nazianzeni Homiliæ IV. e Græco in Latinum transtulit, A. A.” Argellati and others attribute to him also the translation of some of the works of Saint Chrysostome: Picinelli appears to be in error in calling him the author of the "Catalogo degli Eretici," as that was published under the name of Arcimboldo, archbishop of Milan. 4. Fabricius has given a list of the writings attributed to Archytas. The genuineness of the letters and of the fragments, which are chiefly preserved in Stobæus, is very doubtful. The fragments of the works "On the Good and Happy Man," and "On Wisdom," were published by T. Gale in 1670, and were given again with other things in his "Opuscula Mythologica," Cambridge, 1671, 8vo.; Amsterdam, 1688, 8vo. The fragment of the Greek text of the work on the "Nature GIOVANNI ARCIMBOLDI, son of Niccolò of the Universe," was published at Venice, Arcimboldi, was born at the commencement 1561, 8vo., with a Latin version by Dom. of the fifteenth century. He was enrolled Pizimentius, under the title "Architæ in the college of noble jurists in the year Tar. X. Prædicamenta." This edition is 1436; and, being a man of great ability, was often stated as belonging to the year 1571, employed by the dukes of Milan in many imbut perhaps incorrectly. A complete collec-portant missions. He was made ducal countion of the fragments was published by I. Cn. Orelli, Leipzig, 1821, 8vo. The "Political Fragments of Archytas, Charondas, &c., translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor," was published at London, 1822, 8vo. There is a work by Nic. T. Reimer intitled "Archytas, eiusque Solutio Problematis Cubi sellor, president of the magistracy of the Entrate Straordinarie, bishop of Novara in 1468, cardinal in 1473, and archbishop of Milan in 1484. He resigned his archbishopric in favour of his brother Guido Antonio, in 1488, and died at Rome on the 2nd of October, 1491. His works are 1. "Sta tuta Plebis Gaudiani, Anno MCDLXIX." 2 "Statuta Ripariæ S. Julii Annis MCDLXXIII. et MCDLXXXII." 3. "Statuta pro Cleri Reformatione." 4. "Homiliæ et Orationes." 5. "De Ponderibus, Mensuris et Monetis, Libri III." None of these works appear to have been printed. Ciacconio and Eggs call him the author of a 66 Catalogo degli Eretici," printed in 1514. It is supposed, however, that the work here referred to was one printed in 1554, and attributed to Giovanni Angelo, his grandson. GIOVANNI ANGELO ARCIMBOLDI, archbishop of Milan, an illegitimate son of Luigi Arcimboldi, was born at Milan about the year 1485. In 1508 he was enrolled in the college of noble jurists, and his first employment was at the court of Maximilian, duke of Milan, whence he proceeded to Rome. Pope Leo X. in 1514 sent him into Germany as commissary for the sale of indulgences in order to raise funds for the building of St. Peter's at Rome; and in 1516 he proceeded to Denmark and Sweden on the like mission. Christian II., who flattered himself that Arcimboldi might prove useful in reconciling to his government the discontented Swedes, granted him for the small sum of 1120 Rhein gulden, permission to dispose of his indulgences. After a residence of more than a year in Denmark, during which time he had levied considerable sums by the sale of his indulgences, he passed into Sweden, in the year 1518. He had completely gained the confidence of Christian, who not only confided to him all his secrets relating to Sweden, but commissioned him as papal ambassador, to avert by some accommodation the threatened separation of the two countries. As soon, however, as he saw, or thought that he saw, that it would be more to his advantage to adopt the party of Steen Sture the Younger, the Swedish administrator, and Christian's most powerful enemy, he betrayed the trust reposed in him, and revealed to Steen Sture all the king's secrets, and went so far as to confirm the sentence of deprivation pronounced against Trolle, archbishop of Upsala, by the Diet of Sweden, in violation of his duty as papal nuntio, and contrary to the will of the pope. It is supposed that he was induced to take this last step by the artful insinuation of Sture, that he might himself become archbishop of Upsala, and thus stand next in rank to the king. When the king heard of the treachery of Arcimboldi his anger knew no bounds. He stopped all payments on account of indulgences, suffered neither the messengers nor letters of Arcimboldi to leave the kingdom, threw his brother Antonellus into prison, seized about 20,000 ducats that had been collected by the sale of indulgences, and every thing belonging to the two brothers, and pressed Arcimboldi so closely that it was with the greatest difficulty he saved himself. arrived in Rome again in the year 1520. He Having contrived to regain the favour of the pope, he was made first bishop of Novara, about the year 1523, and archbishop of Milan in 1550. He died on the 6th of April, 1555. No entreaties of the pope could induce Christian to consent to an accommodation with Arcimboldi. His brother was held in confinement until the year 1522, and restoration of the money and goods seized, valued by the losers at one million of ducats, was peremptorily, refused. Arcimboldi was the last papal legate who levied contributions in the north by the sale of indulgences; and the injurious consequences resulting from his mission, added to the disgraceful manner in which it had terminated, are supposed to have strengthened the favourable inclination of King Christian for the tenets of the Reformation, and to have greatly facilitated their entrance into the north. Arcimboldi's works are — 1. "Statuta Ripariæ S. Julii." 2. "Ordinationes pro Clero et sua Diœcesi," 1550, fol., reprinted by Saxius in his life of Arcimboldi. 3. "Catalogus Hæreticorum," published at Milan in 1554, which was republished by Vergerius, under the title Catalogo dell' Arcimboldo, Arcivescovo di Milano ov' egli condanna e diffama per Eretici la maggior Parte de' Figliuoli d' Iddio, e Membri di Cristo, i quali ne' loro Scritti cercano la Riformazione della Chiesa Cristiana: di P. Vergerio," 1554, 8vo. This work, which is extremely rare, has been attributed to Antonello, his son, and Giovanni, his grandfather, but erroneously. 66 GUIDO ANTONIO ARCIMBOLDI was born at Milan in the first half of the fifteenth century. In the year 1476 he travelled in Palestine with the celebrated Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. He was employed by the dukes of Milan on embassies to the Florentine and Venetian republics, and to the kings of Naples, Hungary, and Spain. In 1488 he became archbishop of Milan by the renunciation in his favour of his brother Giovanni, the preceding archbishop. He died on the 18th of October, 1497. OTTAVIANO ARCIMBOLDI was born at Milan about the year 1471, and enrolled in the college of noble jurists in 1491. He enjoyed a great reputation for learning, and was a good Hebrew, Greek, and Latin scholar. About the year 1503, after filling several high offices, he was made archbishop of Milan, but died before he took possession of his see, being then about thirty-two years of age. Argellati attributes to him six sonnets, printed amongst those of the Accademici Trasformati of Milan, Milan, 1548, 8vo. But this must be a mistake, as the Academy de' Trasformati of Milan was not founded until 1546, more than forty years after his death. They were most probably the composition of Ottaviano, son of Giovanni Angelo, who lived towards the middle of the sixteenth century. |