The poems of these three brothers have been codec ted in the Delitix Poeturum Italorum ; and have also been published separately, under the title of 'Priam Era Ira in ?Lnulthrornm Carmina. V enc t. 1627. (o) AAIAND, 11,tux ANTtioNv Gnlikno, S1EUR OF, s r, a member of the French academy, and a cele brated French poet, was born at Rouen in 1594. IIis father, w hose surname was Gerard, served in the Eng lish navy during the reign of queen Elizabeth, and com manded a squadron of her fleet for 22 years. He was admitted into the French academy at its establishment in 1633 ; and in 1637, he obtained leave, at his own re quest, to be freed from the oldigation of making an in troductory speech, on condition that he should collect the grotesque and burlesque terms for the Dictionary undertaken by the academy. Amami, as he himself in forms us, traNelled during his youth in America and Africa. Ile came to England in 164S, in the retinue of count Harcourt, ambassador from the French court ; but we are not informed in what capacity he accompanied the ambassador. In 1647, he sent a portion of his poem called ..11oy.yr or .1/os.es. .%-e,d, to Mary Louisa Gonzago, queen of Poland, who was married in 1645 to king Sigismond ; and in 1647, to Casimir, his brother and successor. The Polish queen seems to have been highly pleased with St Aniand's present, as he was, in 1641, by the interest of the Alibt de appointed gentleman in ordinary of the queen's chamber, with an annual pension of 3000 litres. Ile immediately set out for Poland, to occupy his new situation ; but he was taken prisoner, and confined by the scouts of St Omer's; so that he did not arrive in Poland till the year 1650.
Here St Amand remained only for a short time ; and, from motives with which we are not acquainted, he re turned to his native country in 1654, and spent the rest of his days in the metropolis of France. From a pas sage in the first satire of Boileau, it would appear, that the pension from the Polish queen was withdrawn from St Amand : Saint Amand n'eut du ciel quo sa veine en partage, L'habit qu'il cut sur lui fit son seal heritage Un lit et deux placets composoient tout son Bien, Ou, pour en mien x parlor, saint Amand n'avoit rien.
In the early part of his life, Amand abandoned himself to the most licentious pleasures ; but he seems to have been afterwards reformed, either from a conviction of his errors, or from the penury of his circumstances. He died at Paris in 1661, in the 67th year of his age. The works published by Armand are, 1. Les Oeuvres de St .1mana, 3 vols. Paris, 1627. 1643, 1649. 2. Stances sur la Orossesse de la Rein(' de Pologne et de .Suede, 1650. 3. Moyse Suave, Iduue Heroique, Paris 1653, 1660. 4. Stan ces a 1II. Corneille .sur son imitation de Jesus Christ. Paris, 1656 3. Rome Ridicule. 6. A poem on The Moon, in which he complimented Louis XIV. on his skill in swim ming. The French king, it is said, could not bear to hear this poem read ; a circumstance which so mortified St Amand, that he died soon after.—See Hist. de l'?cad. Franc. par Pelisson, p. 101. ; and Olivet's edition, 1730, p. 61. Boileau's Rejlections Crit. sur c. 8. (o)