368 Aster History; ANGUILLARA 
sagacious senate of Venice.’’ But for a year the pupil had out- 
run the master. 
Of Anguillara’s life and work at Padua, we know little in detail, 
but the results would make him illustrious had he done nothing 
else. The garden speedily assumed the highest rank among bo- 
tanical gardens. Belon,* visiting it in 1549, and afterward com- 
paring it with those of the Turks, writes in 1553, that he found 
none more remarkable or elegant.t Belon is supposed by Meyer 
to have meant to name Anguillara though momentarily confusing 
him with the older Ostensor, Aloysius Mundella, when he wrote 
after his visit to Padua in 1549, that ‘To the botanical garden of 
Padua had been called a man, wir diligens et magnae experientiae. 
Dominus Aloysius Mundellat (a slip for Aloysius Anguillara) 
herbarius Romanus, who had devoted himself to the learning and 
culture of his period, and who is now able to exhibit Guajacant 
arbores there grown § by his (Mundella’s ?) own diligence.”’ 
Anguillara is further styled by Marinello, 1561, as Semplicist 
to the Venetian government, which may have involved other duty 
than that of being director of the garden. Anguillara’s friend 
Quadramio was similarly styled “ Simplicista’’ to Ferrara, in the 
Latin of C. Bauhin. 
Anguillara’s personal duties certainly must have been very 
many ; uniting the functions of director and docent, “he had”’ 
says Meyer, ‘not only the charge of the living plants of the 
garden, but it was his duty to arrange and demonstrate all the 
simples or medical remedies living and dead, vegetable or non- 
vegetable.” 
Anguillara’s persecution by Matthioli (see infra, p. 386) had its 
SOLE Ri 
* Pierre Belon or Bellonius, French botanical traveller, who repeated in his Shela 
journeys the endeavors of Anguillara to see and know the plants of Dioscorides in theit 
native soil, Born in 1517, he made his oriental journeys 1546-1549, and in Paris 3 
1553, he finished writing an account of his travel’, which had been through Greece, Asia 
“Minor, Palestine, Egypt and Arabia. This was printed in three volumes in French, 
Observationes appeared at Antwerp at different times, first in 1589, separately, and in 
1605, bound in with Clusius’ ‘‘Z-rotics.”” 
t ‘‘ Nullum vidimus magis singularem et elegantiorem” as Clusius rendered it. 
{ Aloysius Anguillara was properly called Romanus, but Aloysius Mundella should 
have been Brixianus, 
4 Perhaps this last statement about the trees really belonged to Mundella as the 
elder man. 
