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CHAP. XI.
[ M]* 1.1NIcolaus Machiavellus, a great Historian. He lived in the age of Philip Strozius, and Clement the 8th Pope.
Although his Politicks be full of poyson, yet since his history hath much hidden wisdom in it, some think the judicious and wary may reade it with profit.
Joh. Maccovius, a Learned Divine.
There is his Theologia Polemica, and another Work.
Macrobius. Some commend his Saturnals.
Qui dapibus partim emendicatis, partim suffuratis suas caena•• instr••xit. Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. c. 22.
Georgius * 1.2 Macropedius, a learned Poet.
Caius Cilnius Maecenas.
* 1.3He was Councellour to Augustus the Emperour, and so great a favourer and countenancer of Learned men, that he hath conveyed his name to all the Patrons of Learning.
He favoured Poets above others, and advanced them. He exceedingly loved and favoured Virgill the Prince of Poets, & absque ipso fuisset, nos hodi•• & hujus & plurium aliorum monumentis careremus.
He also favoured Horace.
Otia dat nobis, sed qualia fecerat olim Maecenac Flacco Virgiloque suo. Mart. l. 1. Epigr. 108. ad Lucium Julium.
Propertius also was his friend, and other Poets mentioned by Meibomius, c. 18. and there he addes this sentence, Ex tam propenso vero in literatos amore ac favore id praemii inter caetera retulit Maecenas, ut celebriores doctissimorum hominum lucubra∣tiones ipsius virtuti consecrarentur.
Joannes Petrus Maffeius, a very eloquent Italian.
Hujus aevi Latinae linguae lumen, he in prose honoured his Country at the same time that Torquatus Tassus did it in verse, being his Countries Tully, as the other was its Virgill.
There are Epistola Selectae published of his cum vita Ignatii Loiolae.
Raphael a 1.4 Maffeus, a most learned man, as his writings sufficiently testifie. His Works are mentioned by Boissard.
Ferdinandus b 1.5 Magellanus.
He found out the straight of Magellane.