Celio Augustino Curione (1538–1567) was an Italian scholar and reformer who held the chair of rhetoric at

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. He is best known for his ''History of the

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'', which was translated into English by

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.A notable historie of the Saracens
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Life

Celio Augustino Curione was born in 1538 in Salò sul Garda in

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. He was the son of the reformer

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and Margherita Bianca Isacchi. In 1546 the family moved to

, where he attended the university and studied under his father. He then studied at the

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, in

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, Bourge and

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and eventually

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where he studied jurisprudence.Roberto Ricciardi
CURIONE, Celio Agostino
''

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'', Vol. 31, 1985. Curione edited the works of

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, and the ''Hieroglyphica'' of

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. His ''History of the Saracens'' was dedicated to

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. His sources included ''De futuris Christianorum triumphis in Turchos et Saracenos'' by

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, works by the Byzantine emperor

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and above all the ''Annales'' of the Byzantine chronicler

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. He died in Basel on 24 October 1567.

Works

* ''De ratione consequendi styli seu de imitazione''. 1563 * ''De quattuor Coelii Secundi Curionis filiarum vita atque obitu''. 1563 * ''Petri Bembi ... quecumque usquam prodierunt operates in unum corpus collectio , and now demum ab C . A .Curione cum optimis exemplaribus collata et diligentissime punished''. 1567. * ''Sarracenicae historiae libri III''. 1567 * (ed.) ''Hieroglyphica, sive de sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium commentarii'' by

. 1567.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curione, Celio Augustino 1538 births 1567 deaths Academic staff of the University of Basel Italian Renaissance writers 16th-century Italian writers