Amatus LusITanus 387 
As long before as 1553, Amatus had been scented by Matthioli as 
adangerous rival. At that time, when Amatus’ “ Evarrationes” 
on Dioscorides first appeared, letters kept coming to Matthioli, as 
Matthioli claims,* complaining of the “incredible intemperance 
of one Amathus + of Portugal.””. And now that edition after edi- 
tion of Amatus had come out in successive years, and finally one, 
iN 1558, which was larger even than Matthioli’s own, the rage of 
Matthioli burst out in fury, and he charged Amatus as heretic and 
a “semihebraeus,” so increasing the activity of the Inquisition 
against Amatus that he “ was hunted .from place to place,” says 
Meyer, “like a wild beast.” t 
This enlarged edition of Amatus, published at Leyden, in 
_ 1558, an octavo of 807 pages, was supplemented by notes by 
Robertus Constantinus, and’ by figures from Fuchs, Dalechamps 
and others. Matthioli quickly issued, in 1558 fide Trew, from the 
house of his usual publisher Valgrisi at Venice, an attack upon 
_ Amatus which he entitled “ Afologia adversus Amathum Lusi- 
fanum,” following it with his “ Censwra in Amathi Lusitani enar- 
Tationes,”’ § 
__ Among the Compositae treated is ‘‘ Helenium,” 7. ¢., elecam- 
_ Pane, concerning which, page 10, Matthioli quotes with scorn 
_ Matus's very apt discrimination between Pliny’s bitter Helenium 
: ‘nd his Sweet lentisk-leaved spreading Helenium. Because Mat- 
tanity, He travelled through France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy , toe ge 
_, ents on Dioscorides at Antwerp, 1536 (very rare) ; was court physician in Poland ; 
4 won ™mproved, more than a half larger, and with the addition of figures. 
Apologia adversus Amathum, 6, : a 4s of 
a ys ioli Pertinaciously calls Amatus Amathus ‘the simpleton,’’ instea 
ae us, 6é the beloved.”’ : 
Yell tus fled to Ancona, losing in his flight the MS. of his Latin translation he had 
i a hand from a Hebrew version of Avicenna. To his translation he was a 
™ centuriae septem.’ sated together 
Y Spy of these counterblasts, Valgrisi, Venice, 1559, the two P hich Matthioli 
Pagination, 46 pages, considers 121 different plants over whic 
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