FILICAJA, VINCENZO DA (1642-1707), Italian was born at Florence on Dec. 3o, 1642. He studied under the Jesuits at Florence, and then in the university of Pisa. He then returned to Florence, married Anna Capponi, and devoted him self to literary pursuits. His rhetorical genius was fired by the deliverance of Vienna from the Turks in 1683, and he wrote the canzoni which made him famous. The grand duke of Tuscany. Cosmo III., conferred on him a useful sinecure, and he was named governor of Volterra in 1696. Both there and at Pisa, where he was governor in 170o, he was extremely popular. He passed the close of his life at Florence, was nominated senator, and died in that city on Sept. 24, 1707. Much of his verse was pretentious and artificial, but when he is thoroughly natural and spontaneous —as in the two sonnets "Italia, Italia, o to cui feo la sorte" and "Dov' e, Italia, it tuo braccio? e a the ti serve"; in the verses "Alla beata Vergine," "Al divino amore"; in the sonnet "Sulla fede nelle disgrazie"—the truth and beauty of thought and lan guage recall the verse of Petrarch.