Brandolini, Aurelio

Brandolini, Aurelio (surnamed Il Lippo, on account of a humor in his eyes), an Italian writer, was born at Florence about 1440. He was called into Hungary, where he taught elocution at Buda and Strigonia; upon his return to Florence he became a monk of the order of St. Augustin, and died at Rome in 1498, leaving, A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles: — De Humanae Vitae Conditione et Toleranda Corporist Egritudine, and other works. See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.