comments, which unite a certain charm of autobiographical romance with the worldly wisdom of an experienced courtier. A flavour of personality makes them not unpleasant reading. While we learn to despise and mistrust the man in Giovio, we appreciate the author. It would not be too far-fetched to describe him as a sort of 16th-century Horace Walpole. BIBLIOGRAPHY.--The sources of Giovio's biography are: his own works; Tiraboschi's _History of Italian Literature_; Litta's _Genealogy of Illustrious Italian Families_; and Giov. Batt. Giovio's _Uomini illustri della diocesi Comasca_, Modena (1784). Cicogna, in his _Delle inscrizioni Veneziane raccolta_ (Venice, 1830), gives a list of Giovio's works, from which the following notices are extracted: 1. Works in Latin: (1) _Pauli Jovii historiarum sui temporis, ab anno 1494 ad an. 1547_ (Florence 1550-1552), the same translated into Italian by L. Domenichi, and first published at Florence (1551), afterwards at Venice; (2) _Leonis X., Hadriani VI., Pompeii Columnae Card., vitae_ (Florence, 1548), translated by Domenichi (Florence, 1549); (3) _Vitae XII. vicecomitum Mediolani principum_ (Paris, 1549), translated by Domenichi (Venice, 1549); (4) _Vita Sfortiae clariss. ducis_ (Rome, 1549), translated by Domenichi (Florence, 1549); (5) _Vita Fr. Ferd. Davali_ (Florence, 1549), translated by Domenichi (ibid. 1551); (6) _Vita magni Consalvi_ (ibid. 1549), translated by Domenichi (ibid. 1550); (7) _Alfonsi Atestensi_, &c. (ibid. 1550), Italian translation by Giov. Batt. Gelli (Florence, 1553); (8) _Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium_ (ibid. 1551), translated by Domenichi (ibid. 1554); (9) _Elogia clarorum virorum_, &c. (Venice, 1546) (these are biographies of men of letters), translated by Hippolito Orio of Ferrara (Florence, 1552); (10) _Libellus de legatione Basilii Magni principis Moscoviae_ (Rome, 1525); (11) _Descriptio Larii Lacus_ (Venice, 1559); (12) _Descriptio Britanniae_, &c. (Venice, 1548); (13) _De piscibus romanis_ (Rome, 1524); (14) _Descriptiones quotquot extant regionum atque locorum_ (Basel, 1571). 2. Works in Italian: (1) _Dialogo delle imprese militari et amorose_ (Rome, 1555); (2) _Commentarî delle cose dei Turchi_ (Venice, 1541); (3) _Lettere volgari_ (Venice, 1560). Some minor works and numerous reprints of those cited have been omitted from this list; and it should also be mentioned that some of the lives with additional matter, are included in the _Vitae illustrium virorum_ (Basel, 1576). (J. A. S.) The best and most complete edition of Giovio's works is that of Basel (1678). For his life see Giuseppe Sanesi, "Alcuni osservazioni e notizie intorno a tre storici minori del cinquecento--Giovio; Nerli, Segni" (in _Archivio Storico Italiano_, 5th series, vol. xxiii.); Eug. Müntz, _Sul museo di ritratti composto da Paolo Giovio_ (ibid., vol. xix.).