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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 779 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMALTEO , the name of an See also:

Italian See also:family belonging to Oderzo, Treviso, several members of which were distinguished in literature. The best known are three See also:brothers, Geronimo (1507–1574), Giambattista (a 525-1573) and Cornelio (1530–i 603), whose Latin poems were published in one collection under the See also:title Trium Fratrum Amaltheorum Carmina (See also:Venice, 1627; Amst., 1689). The eldest See also:brother, Geronimo, was a celebrated physician; the second, Giambattista, accompanied a Venetian See also:embassy to See also:England in 1554, and was secretary to See also:Pius IV. at the See also:council of See also:Trent; the third, Cornelio, was a physician and secretary to the See also:republic of See also:Ragusa.

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