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66 ADRIAN. .Aubery, ib. a ll his benefices, as well as his ecciefiaftica! orders. About p ' * four years before, he had been removed from his office of the pope's collector in England, at the requeft of king Hen' y VIII, and through the indication of cardinal VVolfev [D~. The O I J heads of his accufjtion, drawn up at Rome, were, " That he '* had ab'.cnccd hinifelr from that city in the vune of Julius II. '* without the pope's leave j that he had never refitted, as he . " ought to have done, at (he church of St. , Chryfogonus, " from which he had his title. j that he had again withdrawn " himfelf from Rome, and had not appeared to a legal cita- " tion ; and that he had engaged in the confpiracy ofcardi- " nal ?et;ucci, and had figned the lengue of Francis iMaria, Ib. Ibid. " duke of Urbino, againft the pope." lie was at Venice v.'hen he received the news of his condemnation ; what be- came of him afterwards is uncertain : Aubery fays, he took Ibid. ?. 81. refuge amongft the Turks in Alia. Pulydore Vergi! tells us, there is to be feen at Riva, a village in the diocefe of Trent, a Latin infcription on one Polydorus Caiamicu^, the pope's janitor, written by cardinal Adrian ; in which he laments his own wretched condition, extolling the happinefs of his friend, whofe death had put an end to his raiferies. Polydore Vergil gives Adrian a high character for his uncommon learning, his exquifite judgment in the cho ce of the propereft words, and the truly clafiical llyle of his writings ; in which he was the rirft, fays that author, fince the age of Cicero, who revived the purity of the Latin language, and taught men to draw their knowledge from the fources of the beft and molt learned authors. r>] Wolfey, sfp'nne at a cardinal- from king Henry. The pope tells Kim. ft'p, lolicitrd Adridn to u'.e his intereft " That he had condefcended to remove for him at the court of Rome; but <c the carcinal from the office of collec- findins that, irirtead oi ierving him, he " tor, for no other realbn but bec^.ule did h'm ill offices, he get hi"- turned " the king had defired it ; and th=)t he out of his place, by his infliTice with " would do evt^n moie for him, if it was H&iiy V11I. In Rymtr's Fcedrra we " not pfa'n that he afled only at the in- have a letter frcm Leo X. da'ed at Kcme, " ftigation of anorh^r, .--nd not of hij Dtobn 31, 1514, in anivver to one " own accord." Vcl. -xlii. p. 467. ADRIANI (JoANNi BATTISTA), born of a patrician fa- mily at Florence in 1511. He wrote a hiftory of his own times, in Italian, which is a continuation of Guicciardine, beginning at the year 1536 [A]. The work is executed with [A] Adriani's Hiflory is carried down Adruni, the author's fon, published this 101574- It confifts ot twenty-two books. Hiftory, and dedicated it to Francis de It was printed in folio, at Florence, by Medici? grand duke of Tufcany. Spend. the Giunti, in 1583 : and at Venice, in Ann, ad ann. 1534- num. xviii. p. 426. tvro volume?, in 1587. Marcello I great