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tirely independent management of all the 
concerns of the Aldine prefs. 
But he did not for thefe additional 
cares in bufinefs, relax the diligence of 
his private itudies. In 1575, he publith- 
eda Selection of Phrafes out of Cicero's 
Epifiles, an Abridgement of his Treatife 
on Orthograshy, and a fhort Differiation 
oz Epiftolary Compofitions ; all in one vo- 
lume. Next year he gave to the world, 
a Commentary on Horace’s Art of Poetry, 
and a fmall volume of great erudition, 
De Quefitis per Epifielam. 
His reputation as a man of tafte, elo- 
quence, and critical erudition, was now 
exceedingly high. He was thought to be 
a man of a genius too fublime and [pright- 
ly to be confined to the plodding toils of 
a grammarian and a printer. He was, 
therefore, appointed Profeffor of Polite 
Literature, and Reader in the Schools of 
the Chancery, in which young men who 
were intended for the funétions of clerks 
in the fervice of the republic, received 
their education. He wrote, and delivered 
in public, a fine funeral Oration on the 
death of Bernardo Rottario, ambaffador 
at Venice, from the Duke of Savoy, in 
3578. In1581 he gave, under the dif- 
advantage of a want of good manutcripts, 
a new edition of Cexforinus. Yn 1582, he 
paid a vifit to Cardinal Charles Borro- 
meo, at Milan; and afterwards, faw Tor- 
quato Taflo, then in miferable and neg- 
lected confinement as a lunatic, at Fer- 
rara.s In 1583, he completed and pub- 
Jithed his edition of the Works of Cicero, 
in ten volumes, folio. In 1534, he pub- 
lithed, for tne ufe of his pupils, a treatife 
in Italian, under the title of the Pere 
Gentleman. The \aft work which he 
publithed at Venice, was a Collection of 
Elegant Latin Phrafes cut of the Comedies 
of Terence. 
In 1585, he accepted an invitation to 
fill the chair of eloquence at Bologna, 
then vacant by the death of Carolo Si- 
gonio. His firlt publication, after his en- 
trance into this univerfity, was a Commen- 
tary on Horace’s Epode in Praztfe of a 
Country Life. He printed that fame year, 
a work of higher merits, in the Italian 
language ; namely, an Accouxgt of the Life 
of Cofmo de’ Medict. ‘This has beeu prail-d 
by the bef judges for its elegance and 
propriety of compofition; and it was re- 
ceived very gracioufly by Cofmo’s fon, 
Duke Francis, who then reigned at Flo- 
rence. 
Francis invited the biographer, who 
had done fo much honour to his father’s 
memory, to the Protellorfiip of Polite 
I 
Memoir of Aldo Manucei, the Younger. 
[Sept. 1, 
Literature, then vacant in the Univerfity 
of Pifa. The pecuniary conditions of 
this offer were fo advantageous, that, 
ALbo was induced to accept it. In 
April, 1587, he went from Bologna to 
enter upon his new appointment. After 
a (hort vifit to Florence, he aad arrived at 
Pifa on the 4th of May. At Pula, he 
was promoted to the degree of doétor in 
laws. He pronounced a noble funeral 
oration on the death of his patron, Duke 
Francis, at Pifa, on the zoth of Nevem- 
ber, 1587. He was, about the fame time, 
admitted a member of the Academy of 
Florence, and had the honour of deliver- 
ing an eloquent difcourle On the Nature of 
Poetry, in the bal! of the Medicis, at Flo- 
rence, on the 28th day of February, 1588. 
In the vacation from the duties of his 
Profefforfhip, in the following harveft, he 
went to Lucca, to procure materials for a 
life of the famous Caftruccio Caftracani, 
who had been, in the beginning of the 
fourteenth century, prince, or tyrant, of 
that city and the furrounding territory. 
About the time when he left Bologna 
for Pifa, he had been invited to fili the 
Profefforfhip juft then left vacant by the 
death of the famous Ant. Muret. Though 
he declined the invitation, he was, never- 
thelefs, chofen to the Profeflorfhip. It 
was kept open for his acceptance, and the 
folicitations were renewed to him. At 
length, after two years ftay at P.fa, he 
yielded to the requeft of Pope Sixtus V. 
and repaired to Rome. Very foon after 
his arrival, he publithed two {mall trea- | 
tifes, Ox the Politics of Cicero and On the 
Villa of Pliny. Intending to fpend the 
reft of his life in this capital, he, at an in- 
convenient expence, had his whole library 
removed to it from Venice. He had 
apartments affigned to him in the Vati- 
can, and a table kept for him at the 
pope’s expence.. 
At Rome, he publifhed his Hifory of 
Cajftruccio Cafiracani, of Lucca; a work 
which is highly praifed by De Thou. 
Even after the death of Sixtus V. Aldo ftill 
continued to enjoy his fermer emoluments 
at Rome. On the acceffion of Clement 
VIII. he was appointed to the direction 
of the prefs of the Vatican. 
In 1592, Aldo publifhed a volume of 
his Familiar Letiers. Thefe are repre- 
fented, by the beft critics, as models of 
purity and elegance of expreffion, and as 
written with remarkable modefty wherever 
the author has eccafion te fpeak of him- 
felf in them. 
From this time he added nothing to his. 
former publications, except a dedication, 
which 
