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Ermolao Hermolaus Barbarus Barbaro

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BARBARO, ERMOLAO (HERMOLAUS BARBARUS) (1454 c. 1493), Italian scholar, was born at Venice.

He edited and translated a number of classical works, of which the most important were: Castigationes Plinianae (1492) , in which he boasted of having made 5,000 corrections in the text of Pliny's Natural History; Themistius' Paraphrases of certain works of Aristotle (1480) ; Aristotle's Rhetorica (published in ; Castigationes in Pomponium Melam •