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 ALDROVANDUS. 143 Hiftory of Trees," were publiflied at fcvcr.il time death, by the care o; " nl j-.-ii-n The volume " Of Serpents" was put in ord- r, and fent to the prefs by Bartholomews Amhr- Iim. : th .t ' < ) Qiudru which divide the Hoot,'' w.; 1 ; lu'.t ii ll-.-J 1-y John Cum Uterverius and afterwards by iXmiU-r, aii liftied by Marcus Antonius Beim.v and Jerome Tftmburinj ; that " Of Quadrupeds which do not divide th j 1 K>ot," .md th.it Tamburini ; that" Of Quadrupeds wich Toes or Claws," was compiled by Ambrofinus; the " Ililtoiy ofMonftcrJ," and t!;c Supplements, were collected by the lame author, and nu!>!ii'h- ed at the charge of Marcus Antonius iicrn:.i ; the " Dendro- logy*' is the work of Ovidius Montalhaau . Mcrcklinus, in Lindenio renovato, p. 1047. " Aldiovandus," lavs M. 1'Abbc Gallois, " is not the author of fcvcul books publilhed under his name ; but it has happened to the collection of natural hiftory, of which thofe books are part, as it does to thole great rivers "which retain during their whc,la courfe the name tru'y bore at their firft rife, though in the end the greatelt pait of the water which they carry into the fea does notbelongtn them, but to other rivers which they receive : for as the in ft fix volumes of this great work were Aldrovan jus's, although others were compofed fince his death by different auth.u.-, they have ftill been attributed to him, either becaufe they were a continuance of his deii.Mi, or necauie the wii of them ufe his memoirs, or becaufe his method v. lowed, or perhaps that thefe lait volumes mip;hc be the better received under fo celebrated a name." Journal dcs Savans, Nov. 12, 1668, p. 425. ALEANDER( JEROME), archbiftiop of Brindifi and a car- dinal, was born at a little village on the confines of litri i, the 13111 of February, 1480. His father, Francis Aleander, a phyiician, educated him with great care, and lent him to Venice, where he made confiderable proficiency in all bran- ches of learning : he ftudied the mathematics, natural philo- fophy, and phyfic. He alfo applied with great afliduity to the Greek and Hebrew languages, in which he made k>-v a progrefs, with the affiliance of an excellent r., thu he fpoke and wrote them with fluency. Pope Alexander I. being informed of his great abilities, intended to h.u him fecretary to his (on, and had afterwards Ibnvj th.^ghts of fending him his nuncio to Hungary : but AleanJer, bcin.; taken ill, could not at that time leave Venice. In ijcS, ac VOL. f. L the
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