ESTAÇO, ACHILLES. - Portuguese humanist, b.
at Vidigueira (Evora) in 1524, d. at Rome in Sept.
1581. He studied philology and theology at Coimbra, Paris
and Louvain. Having probably become a professor
in the Roman Studium, he entered the service of Portuguese
diplomacy at the Holy See.

A scholar of European fame, he took an intense part in
the work for the critical reconstruction of classical texts. He
composed original Latin short poems, versions from Callimachus, a
short poem on the Portuguese national standard and the
battle of Ourique, commentaries on Horace's Ars Poetica, on
Catullus, on Suetonius and on various works of Cicero, the Observationes aliquot locorum Graeco-latinorum, orations, epistles, religious short poems. Among his contemporaries he is known by the
Latinized surname of Statius. A good number of his manuscripts is preserved in the Vallicelliana of Rome, which owes to
him its first considerable bibliographic collection.

Bibliography

BIBL.: J. Gomes Branco, Un umanista portoghese in Italia: A. R., in Relac. stor. fra l'Italia ed il Portogallo. Memorie e documenti, Rome 1940, pp. 135-48. Joio Scudieri Ruggieri

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