General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . , with anecdotes of their lives, anda critical account of their principal \\This, .after long remaining in MS. was pub-lished by the abate Melius. He added someMS. letters of Fazio, relating to the history ofthe times. Of the same author have been pub-. two moral ire .ii es, De Hunianx- \ , :i itatc, and De Excellentia & PrastantiaH nnis; and also a Latin poem. I Iiiis generally pure and Hegant, especially in com-on w
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . , with anecdotes of their lives, anda critical account of their principal \\This, .after long remaining in MS. was pub-lished by the abate Melius. He added someMS. letters of Fazio, relating to the history ofthe times. Of the same author have been pub-. two moral ire .ii es, De Hunianx- \ , :i itatc, and De Excellentia & PrastantiaH nnis; and also a Latin poem. I Iiiis generally pure and Hegant, especially in com-on with that of ;t writers in the earlypart of the lame century. Tiraboschi.—A. FAZZELLO, Thomas, a learned Sicilianecclesiastic, was born at Sacca, a town in theie of Palermo, in the year 1498. Havingtaken the habit among the monks,his talents and character gave him such re-putation with them, that he was twice raise,!to t! .1 of provincial, and would have been eleel ral of the order if ins own modesty had not led him to *hwart 1. .ares that were taken for that purpose. Heivjj ten times chos^.i prior of tl ery at :rmo, and died in th ion of that olEce. F E A ( 41 ) F E A in 1570. Father Fazzello was the author ofvarious works, and among others of a Historyof Sicily, written in Latin, in twenty books,which first appeared at Palermo in 1558, andis esteemed a work of considerable merit inpoint of authority. It has gone through severaleditions, and was translated into the Italianlanguage by father Rene, of Florence, a monkof die same order with the author. Bozio, inhis History of Malta, says that Fazzello, hav-ing received an injury from one of the knights,has revenged himself on the whole body, by theunfavourable representation which he has givenof them in his history. We know not whatfoundation there is for this anecdote : but thatthe writer was not accurately informed of thecircumstances of Fazzellos life, is apparentfrom what he has added, that soon after thepu
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