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<p> was born at Viterbo July 7, 1432. Having entered the order of Dominicans, he became a proficient in the Latin, Greek, and Oriental languages, and in theology. He published two works, entitled, </p> <p> 1. | Giovanni Annius <ref name="term_20161" /> | ||
==References == | <p> was born at Viterbo July 7, 1432. Having entered the order of Dominicans, he became a proficient in the Latin, Greek, and Oriental languages, and in theology. He published two works, entitled, </p> <p> '''1.''' ''Tractatus De Imperio Turcarum;'' and </p> <p> '''2.''' ''De Futuris Christianorum Triumphi,'' etc. (Genoa, 1480, 4to), in which he endeavors to show that Mahomet was the [[Antichrist]] of the Apocalypse. But the work by which he is chiefly known is his seventeen books of [[Antiquities]] (Rome, 1498, fol.), in which he pretended to give the works of Berosus, Marsylus of Lesbos, Caton, Sempronius, Archilochus, Xenophon, Metasthenes or Megasthenes, Manetho, and others. These writings were the cause of a dispute among the learned at the time, some, as Pineda, Louis Viveza, the Spaniard, Vossius, [[Melchior]] Canus, and others, maintained the utter falsity of all these pieces, and declared Annius to be a sheer impostor; while others, who had among them such men as: Nauderius, [[Leander]] Albert, [[Sixtus]] of Siena, Alph. Mildonatus, etc., declared themselves in his favor. Annius was master of the palace for [[Alexander]] VI, and was, it is supposed, poisoned by Casar Borgia, whom he had offended. He died Nov. 13, 1502. '''''—''''' Hoefer, Biog. Genzrale, 2, 729; Landon, Eccl. Dict. s.v. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_20161"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/annius,+giovanni Giovanni Annius from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_20161"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/annius,+giovanni Giovanni Annius from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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