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Oclaxius. This was probably a taking advantage of sounds. Giovanni 

 Paolo Parisio in that way became Johannes Paulus Parrhasius, a name 

 famous in its day, and liable to be confounded with that of the artist^ 

 pupil of Socrates. (In passing, it may be remarked that some Irish 

 names submit readily to the Italianising and Latinising process. The 

 well-known Montreal name Donegana looks as if it were an example 

 of this; and on the title page of a Compendium, in Latin, of Irish 

 Church-history, anno 1621, we have it set forth that it was composed 

 ' II Philippo OsuUeuano Bearro, Iberno.') In Nicolaus Laurentius for 

 Cola di Rienzi, we have a correction in Latin of a kind of slang once in 

 vogue in Italy in regard to names, — the custom, that is to say, of 

 speaking of persons of note by abbreviated, nursery-names. Giotti's 

 name is said to be a fragment of Ambrogiotto, that is, little Ambrogio 

 or Ambrosias. Italian writers Latinised the Scottish name Crichton 

 into Critonius. In Italian itself the famous Crichton was Giacomo 

 Critonio. Buchanan makes it Crihtonius. Here we have helps to 

 the pronunciation of the original name. In Latin versions of some of 

 the treatises of Savonarola, that name is treated as purely classical. 

 We have also his letters printed at Paris in 1674 : Hier. Savonarolse 

 Epistolce. He is ordinarily known as Hieronymo and Girolamo da 

 Ferrara : and is frequently quoted as Hieronymus Perrarius, that is, by 

 his Christian and local names Latinised. Old English writers speak of 

 him as Jerome of Ferrarie, and Jerom Ferrarie. 



The proud name of Julius Csesar Scaliger or Scaligerus, eminent in 

 the literature of the 16th century, was properly J. C. della Scala, of 

 the della Scalas de Bordone, who were allied, it was asserted by Julius, 

 to the princely della Scalas of Verona. Some who were irritated by 

 the arrogance and ostentatiousness of Julius, professed to know that 

 his name was simply Bordone; and that della Scala denoted the sign 

 of his father's trade or the street where he lived. Joseph Justus, the 

 illustrious son of Julius, took the trouble to re-assert a family connec- 

 tion with the noble della Scalas. This drew forth from Gaspar Sciop- 

 pius, at Mentz in 1607, a refutation, or supposed refutation of that 

 claim — Scaliger HypobolimEeus, (the supposititious Scaliger), hoc est, 

 Elenchus Epistolae Josephi Burdonis, pseudo-Scaligeri de Vetustate et 

 Splendore gentis Scaligerse. Sannazarauus is a quasi-Latinisation of 

 Sannazzaro, St. Nazarius, author in 1502 of the Arcadia, a pastoral 

 romance, whicli was, in part, the model of our own Sir Philip Sidney's 

 Arcadia. This writer is also spoken of by his academic pseudonym 



