V. The earliest edition of Boccalini's " Ragguagli di

Parnasso " was published at Venice in 1612. Andreas is
known to have been an Italian scholar; he was also an omnivo-
rous reader; he is said to have admired Boccalini, and to have
imitated his style ; and thence it is argued that he it was
who translated Advertisement 77 of the first centuria,
under the title of the " Universal Reformation of the Whole
Wide World."