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mentary on Dioscorides ; first Italian edition 1544 (Venice); 

 Latin 1554, with Woodcuts; 1562, Bohemian and German 

 (Prague), translated by Georg Handsch(with larger illustra- 

 tions). French translation, by Antoine du Pinet (Lyons : 

 Gabr. Cotier, 2nd edn. 1566). Opera Matthioli, by Caspar 

 Bauhin. Basle, 1598. Fol. His Commentary went through 

 more than 60 editions, d. 1577. (Tiraboschi and Meyer, iv.) 

 98. Porta, Giambattista, b. at Naples, c. 1539. 155^, his 

 (1) Magia Naturalis appeared. English translation, London, 

 1658, fol., quoted without acknowledgment by Bacon. 

 Friend of Cardinal Luigi d'Este ; founded an Academia de' 

 Segretti in his house at Naples. Pope Paul V. summoned 

 him to Rome, and suppressed his Academy. He was the 

 creature of the Doctrine of Signatures in scientific form ; he 

 leant too much to the secret, mysterious, superstitious side 

 of things, d. 1615. (Meyer iv., 438-444.) 



2. De Furtivis Literarum Notis, vulgo de Ziferis. 



3. De Distillatione. Rome, 1608. 



4. De Aeris Transmutationibus, libri quatuor. Naples, 

 1609. 



5. Phytognomica octo libris contenta (on plants, animals, 

 metals). Naples, 1588. Fol. Woodcuts. De humana phy- 

 siognomia (anticipation of Lavater). 



6. Villa?, libri xii. Frankfurt, 1592. 4to. Naples, 1583. 

 4to. 



7. Pomarium (imperfect). 



190, 245. Rapinus, Renatus (Rene Rapin). A French 

 Jesuit Father, Latin Poet, Critic and Theologian, b. 1621 

 at Tours, d. 1687. His Hortorum Libri iv. (Paris, 1665, 

 4to.) reprinted, with improvements, 1666, i2mo., and 

 edited by Brotier (1780, i2mo.) was twice translated into 

 English verse, by John Evelyn, Jr., London 1673, 8vo. , and 



