Background
He was born about 1500 at Veroli, in the Roman Campagna.
He was born about 1500 at Veroli, in the Roman Campagna.
Other forms of his name are Antonio Della Paglia, A. Degli Pagliaricci. In 1536 his didactic poem in Latin hexameters, De immortalitate animarum, was published at Lyon. lieutenant is divided into three books, the first containing his proofs of the divine existence, and the remaining two the theological and philosophical arguments for immortality based on that postulate.
The whole concludes with a rhetorical description of the occurrences of the Second Advent.
In 1546 he accepted a professorial chair at Lucca, which he exchanged in 1555 for that of Greek and Latin literature at Milan. Here about 1566 his enemies renewed their activity, and in 1567 he was formally accused by Fra Angelo, the inquisitor of Milan.
He was tried at Rome, condemned to death in October 1569, and executed in July 1570.
In 1542 the Inquisition made his tract Della Pienezza, sufficienza, et satisfazione della passione di Christo, or Libellus de morte Christi (The Benefit of Christ"s Death), the basis of a charge of heresy, from which, however, he successfully defended himself.