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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Aonio Paleario (1503–1570)

Paleario, Aonio, or Antonio Della Paglia (pä-le-är’ē-us). An Italian polemic writer; born at Veroli, in the Pontifical States; died at Rome, 1570. He wrote several theological dissertations, and a notable ‘Disputation against the Roman Pontiffs and their Adherents’; his best work is a poem ‘On the Immortality of the Soul’ (1531), one of the finest specimens of Latin poetry written in the sixteenth century.