ACCORSO (AccuRsius), MARIANGELO (c. '544), Italian critic, was born at Aquila in the kingdom of Naples. He was a great favourite with Charles V., at whose court he resided for 33 years, and by whom he was employed on vari .. . . .
ous foreign missions. He was the first editor of the Letters of Cassiodorus, with his Treatise on the Soul (1538) ; and his edition of Ammianus Marcellinus (1533) contains five books more than any former one. The affected use of antiquated terms, introduced by some of the Latin writers of that age, is humor ously ridiculed by him, in a dialogue in which an Oscan, a Volscian and a Roman are introduced as interlocutors (1531).