Agustín, Antonio

Persons known by name

bishop, cardinal, lived in Rome
friend of Jean Matal
together with Matal student of Alciato [in Bologna]
mentioned by Strada as a leading member of the "eruditissima academia" in Rome during Strada's time there (1553–1555)
took part in the dialogue in the statue garden of cardinal Cesi described by Pighius in his Themis Dea (together with Pighius himself, Morillon, Matal)
collector of medals and coins
author of Dialogos de las medals…(1587), which were translated two times in Italy in 1592 und republished several times during the 17th century
according to [Heuser 2003: 97 Fn 1] only very few contributions to Matal's sylloge come from Agustín, see [Cooper 1993: 101]
in the funeral speach by Andreas Schott SJ, published in Agustín's Opera Omnia, vol. 1, Schott claims: "Cum enim domicilium Romæ Antonius haberet, pontificiarum caussarum judex aequissimus,& quasi rerum ac fortunarum suarum sedem ibi, si arbitratu suo perpetuo vivere licuisset, horis subsecivis, quibus a negotiis publicis laxamenti aliquid dabatur ad corporis animique relaxationem, cum eruditissimis hominibus, qui domum ejus assidue discendi gratia frequentabant,

qui XI. ipsòs annos in illius, contubernio jucundissime vixit, cæterisque domi suae, quæ illis oraculum, verius Delphico, esse videbatur, de urbis Romæ antiquitatibus, inscriptionibus, numismatis, rerum gestarum memoria, & scriptoribus antiquis Græcis atque Latinis, omnique adeo philologia & interioribus litteris libenter disserebat, & inftar apis undique decerpebat, quibus Spartam, quod ajunt, illustraret suam."
In 1540, Agustín already knew Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and wrote him from Bologna to Venice (letter registered at EMLO)