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imnocent cause in Anguillara’s correcting errors of Matthioli re- 
specting Lycium and Aconitum, an offense which was unpardon- 
able, although the corrections were respectfully offered and only 
two in number. It was equally offensive that Anguillara had in- 
terpreted a number of other classical plant references in a different 
way from Matthioli. Matthioli had already driven the learned 
Amatus from place to place in Italy ; and now he stirred up such 
a storm against Anguillara as drove him in 1561 from Padua. 
The one * botanist of eminence who joined Matthioli in this per- 
secution was Aldrovandi,+ successor of Luca Ghini at Bologna, to 
whom Matthioli wrote saying, “I am charmed that you have 
found out Anguillara for what he is, that he is prima per igno- 
rantissimo, malignissimo, ed invidiosissima.” ‘ 
However, Ferrara gave welcome to Anguillara, and he is 
thought to have held a professorship in its university, though his 
reputation remained under a cloud for two hundred years till 
Haller reéstablished him in the esteem of botanists, 1771. Since 
then, Gaertner dedicated to his memory a genus Anguillara, and 
when this was renamed Badula by Jussieu, Robert Brown be- 
stowed his name anew upon a genus of the Melanthaceae. He 
received much appreciation at the hands of Sprengel, Du Petit 
Thouars, Hoefer and Meyer. All this posthumous fame had be- 
gun 200 years too late. His death was at Ferrara in 1570, due 
to the plague, or « pestilential fever’ says Mazzuchelli, and fol- 
lowed close on his return from a voyage to Apulia with the “friar 
Evangelista Quadramio” t (so Hoefer) § where he had been 
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making researches among plants. Taken ill, he prepared for him 
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__ Pethaps Anguillara's beloved master, the famed lecturer, Luca Ghini, mer 
wring, have been of help to his former pupil in this extremity. The fact that Ghin 
had given over the manuscript of his projected work on medicinal Wlgen AA 
Matthioli for incorporation in his commentary, is no evidence that Ghini, w ‘3 
eived : : cution of Anguillara. 
; followed there by An- 
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577, by Boerhaave with his botanical garden at Leyden]. licist to the Duke 
of Evangelista Quadramius Eremita, Theol. Doctor ”’ and tg : a quarto tract, 
“De ba Caspar Baubin terms him; author, 1597, at Foe So" 
| Theriaca et Mithridatio.”’ 
In Biographie Générale. 
