Agostino Pantaleone Giustiniani, an Italian prelate and philologist, born in Genoa in 1470, died at sea in 1536. Educated by the Dominicans of Florence, he became a professed member of that order in 1488, studied oriental languages, taught in several colleges, and in 1513 published his Precatio Pietatis Plena (8vo, (Venice), in Hebrew* and Latin. About this time he was appointed against his will bishop of Neb-bio in Corsica, was present in 1516 at the fifth Lateran council, and solicited in vain his removal from the episcopal office. He then withdrew to the retirement offered him by the bishop of Ivrea, continuing his linguistic labors, and went to Paris at the invitation of Francis I., who appointed him his chaplain, and under whose auspices he published shortly afterward his Hebrew-Latin edition of the book of Job. After rilling- for five years the chair of Hebrew in the university of Paris, he returned to Genoa, then torn by tactions, was seriously wounded while trying to quell a riot, and thence proceeded to Nebbio, where he spent the remainder of his life in his episcopal duties.

The principal work of Giustiniani is his Psalterium He-brceum, Graecum, Arabicum, Chaldaicum, cum tribus Latin is Interpretationibus et Glossis (fob, Genoa, 1516). In a note to one of the psalms is the first printed biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus. He also left in manuscript a polyglot New Testament.