Note 281 — Chapter V
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Three writers of the Renaissance bore this name: G. Pontano, the famous Italian humanist and Latin poet, who died in 1503; P. Pontano, of Bruges, the author of an Ars Versificatoria, published in 1520; and J. Pontanus, a Bohemian Jesuit, author of Institutiones Poeticæ, first published at Ingolstadt in 1594, and several times reprinted.