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ALCIONIO, PIETRO

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ALCIONIO, PIETRO , or PETxus ALCYONIUS (c. 1487-1527), See also:Italian classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Venice. After having studied See also:Greek under See also:Marcus See also:Musurus of See also:Candia, he was employed for some See also:time by Aldus See also:Manutius as a corrector of the See also:press, and in 1522 was appointed See also:professor of Greek at See also:Florence through the See also:influence of Giulio de' See also:Medici. When his See also:patron became See also:pope in 1523 under the See also:title of See also:Clement VII., Alcionio followed him to See also:Rome and remained there until his See also:death. Alcionio published at Venice, in 1521, a Latin See also:translation of several of the See also:works of See also:Aristotle, which was shown by the See also:Spanish scholar Sepulveda to be very incorrect. He wrote a See also:dialogue entitled Medices Legatus, sive de Exilio (1522), in connexion with which he was charged with See also:plagiarism by his See also:personal enemy, See also:Paulus Manutius. The See also:accusation; which See also:Tiraboschi has shown to be groundless, was that he had taken the finest passages in the See also:work from See also:Cicero's lost See also:treatise De Gloria, and had then destroyed the only existing copy of the See also:original in See also:order to See also:escape detection. His contemporaries speak very unfavourably of Alcionio, and accuse him of haughtiness, uncouth See also:manners, vanity and licentiousness.

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