had di-fburfed for paying the troops, when the treafury was ex-
haufted. And fo great was his generofity, that, notwithftanding
his immenfe revenues, when he died, there was a neceffity o f
felling the epifcopal plate, and other moveables o f value, to pay
his debts. He had an extraordinary degree o f penetration in political
affairs; and it was always contrary to his opinion to declare
war againft the Turk, unlefs a previous well eftabliihed
and powerful league between the Chriftian Princes had been
formed. Although he was continually employed in great affairs,
he always retained his genial love for learning, and, in the midfl:
o f bufinefs, found fome leifure hours for fludy. His manu-
fcript works ftill extant are,
1. Vita Petri Berijlavi.
2. Iter Buda Hadrianopolim.
3. He Jitu Moldavia et Franfalpince. Fragmentum.
4. He rebus gefiis yobannis Regis Hung aria. Libri duo.
5. He obitu Jobannis Regis Hungarice, Epijiolee ad yoannem Stats-
Hum Rpifcopum Franfylvanum data dum idem Statilius in
Gallia oratorem ageret anno 1540.
6. Animadverjiones in Pauli Jo vii Hijloriam, ad ipfum yavium.
7 . He objidione, et interceptione Budce, ad Petrum Petronaith.
8. Vita F . Georgii JJtiJjenii, quce pene tot a periit.
9. GolleSlio antiquorum Rpigrammatum.
10. Mult a ad Hijloriam Hungaricamfui temporis.
11 . Otia, Jieu Garmina.
Michele Veranzio, the archbifhop’s brother, did not make fo
confpicuous a figure in the world. Not having patience enough
to bear the abufive temper o f his uncle Statileo, he lived fome-
time in Hungary, by no means at his eafe, and at laft returned
to
toSibenico. But he wrote with greater elegance than Antonio,
both in profe and verfe. Tomeo Manavich quotes a work of
Michel Veranzio concerning the Hungarian hiftory of his own
times ; o f which, however, only a fragment relative to the year
1536, now remains. I believe nothing o f his is printed, be-
fides one elegy, among the Latin verfes o f Girolamo Arconati.
But he left in manufcript feveral elegant poetical pieces, and an
oration to the Tranfilvanians, whereby he endeavoured to per-
fuade them to put themfelves under the protection o f the Turk,
rather than become fubjeCls to king Ferdinand.
Faulto and Giovanni, his ions, were recommended to the
care o f their uncle Antonio, for their education. Some fchool
epigrams o f the latter ftill -remain ; he fell, when young, in
battle. Faufto lived to a great age, and might have been rich
and happy, had not his violent temper hindered his advancement,
and kept him in a perpetual difquiet. He fuffered much trouble
by -having imprudently engage'd the court o f Hungary in a
difpute with that o f Rome, concerning beneficiary matters. He
died bifhop o f Canadio in partibus. W e have, publifhed by
him at Venice in 1535, a fmall pentaglot dictionary, befides a
volume in fo l. entitled L e Mauhine, publifhed fubfequently, and
a very fhort logical treatife, under the name o f Giujlo Vera-
ce. Gn account of this laft treatife, our author entered into
eorrefpondence with two very famous men, F. Tommafo Cam-
panella, and the Archbifhop de Hominis. There is, o f the firft,
among the Chartce Verantiance, an autographal cenfure of the
faid logical treatife, and another o f de Hominis, principally on
the fame fubjeCt. Faufto wrote a great deal, and, among other
things, a hiftory o f Dalmatia, which he ordered to be buried
with him. His heirs refpeCted this whimfical humour j and
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