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It i» not well known what was his baptismal name: that of Pomponius he assumed ftom the love of antiquity, and subjoined that of Laetus, which he soii)etimes changed inW Infortunatus. He also occasionally caljea himself Julius Pomponius Sabinus. He went to Rome at on early age, whera na Digitized by Google POlf was initiated in claadcal literature h^ Pietro da Monopoli, and Lorenxo Valliu On the death of the latter in 1457, Leto was appointed to aucceed him in hia Khool. The noble remains of an...tiquity in that city, and the memory of its past grandeur, so inflamed his imagination, that the study of its topography and relics became bis ruling passion. In order to promote studies of this kind, Pomponio was the founder of an academy in Home devoted to classical literature and anti- 2uarian researches. With a pardonable egree of pedantry the members gave each other Roman or Grecian names; and at their meetings they discussed questions of history and antiauity, and iometimes of philosophy.
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