ITALIAN COMMENTATORS 327 
commentators, some of whom were also more general in their 
Scope, and among whom some mention of Aster is to be expected ; 
prefixing to each the date of his first known authorship. For 
further particulars about these authors, see Bumaldus, Seguier, 
Sprengel, Meyer and Pritzel; as well as for many contemporary 
writers whom I omit as less important, less likely to have men- 
tioned Aster, and whose works are not in reach in America. 
80. Hermolaus Barbarus began, probably in this year, at the age of 26, his 
translation and commentary on Dioscorides ; his short life, 1454-1493, was mourned by 
Leonicenus in a “« Lamentatio mortis,” 1493: see p. 334- 
1401. Antonius adie of Padua; wrote ithe his Florida Corona, hoc est de 
conservatione Sanitatis, describing 300 plants; printed Venice, by Forlivio, 1481; 
om fo slenal 1534. 
Guido de Cauliaco, French physician, whose Avfidotarium appeared at 
wens 1490, again 1519, 1546, etc 
1492. Leonicenus,* Nicolaus, 14981 ew critic of Pliny, in his De Plini 
roribus (Ferrara,1492, etc., and again, much enlarged, Basle, 1529). Under re diac 
“In Plinii Errata’ it was printed by feuilers Strasburg, 1531, from an edition pre- 
faced at Ferrara, 1 504 ; forming pages 244-89 of Brunfels’ De vera herbarum cognitione 
afpendix, Inthis Leonicenus has much to say ‘‘ De Tripolio,”’ p. 24, and ‘* De Turbit,”” 
P- 81, which relates to the literature of Aster Tripolium Leonicenus’ “De 
and iii of his “* Herbarum,”’ 1 o-7. Marcellus Vergilius praises him as ‘‘v vir nostra 
aetate dignus,’’ and refers to Leonicenus’ copious writings about Coronopus, which was 
soon after known as Stellaria and finally confused by some with Aster Atticus; I find 
nothing on Coronopus, however, in Leonicenus’ ‘‘ Zrra¢a.”’ : 
1501. Gerardus Nocito, a Sicilian, known as Pharmacopaeus; his Lucidarium 
Medicinae, Naples, 1511, “‘librum copiosum, et valde utilem, atque curiosum,”’ giving 
“a notice of all simples ’’ (Bumaldus, 17). 
1510. Collinutius, or Pandolfo Collenuccio; author of ‘ Pliniana defensio,” 
Fesponse to Leonicenus’ criticisms (Ferrara, 1510; repeated by Brunfels, 1531, in bis 
De vera, forming pages 89-116). He treats ‘de Tripolio” (Aster Tripolium, etc. ) 
P- 91 of Brunfels’ edition. 
1516. Ruellius’ translation of Dioscorides into Latin; Paris, 1516; see p. 337. 
1518. Marcellus Rane! translation of Dioscorides into Latin, with copious 
hotes; Florence, 1518; 
1515. Joannes a art de Neti consi author, Strasburg, 1 518, of ‘* Marga- 
rita Medicinae, ...de remediis herbaru bi 
1518, Vigonius, Joannes de igs, Genuensis, archiater to Pope Julius I1; his 
Chirurgia Practica treats in its 7th book “de natura Simplicium” ; printed Leyden, 
SS i, 
of the Leoniceno family of Vicenza, or in their neighboring Castel di jot hi 
hie. as Leonicum ; became one of the greatest masters of elegant Latinity of his 
“Be; living to be 96, his long life confuted the conclusions too hastily inferred from se 
early deaths of Hermolaus, Kyber, Valerius Cordus, Conrad Gesner, etc., that botan- 
ieal studies were unfavorable in the 16th century to longevity ; the fact being that it 
was the century of the plague, and many young botanists fell victims. 
