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the table , and was in the act of surrendering himself ; hut happening ; still to have in his hand the knife which he had been using at dinner , and being a robust and powerful man , the prefect was in his turn alarmed , and fainted . Curio , with remarkable presence of mind , now seized his opportunity . He left the room , went down stairs , passed through the midst of the guard which was stationed at the door without being recognized , entered the stable ,
mounted his horse , and rode off . On the recovery of the bargello from his fainting fit , the alarm was given , and the hue and cry raised ; but Curio was now beyond their reach ; and a violent storm soon compelled them to take shelter , the delay occasioned by which , while it favoured his flight , rendered further pursuit on their part hopeless . Having thus once more escaped the jaws of death , he returned to Lausanne , where he was shortly joined by his wife and children ; and finally removed to Basil , A . D . 1547 . In the
university of this city he was appointed professor of eloquence and belleslettres , an office for which he was eminently qualified , and which he discharged with uninterrupted satisfaction till the end of his life . The Pope now solicited him to return into Italy , and made him a very liberal offer , together with the promise of a free pardon , on the sole condition of his abstaining in future from the discussion of religious subjects . The Duke of Savoy , on hearing of this , made him a still more flattering proposal . The
Emperor Maximilian was likewise anxious to secure his literary services in the University of Vienna ; and the Waiwode of Transylvania offered him a valuable appointment in the newly-established College of Weissenberg . But he declined all these inviting proposals , and continued , for the space of more than twenty years , to devote himself with unwearied assiduity to the discharge of his official duties in the University of Basil , preferring the society of such men as that seat of learning afforded , to all the splendid
allurements held out to him by foreign courts . He died at Basil , on Tuesday , November 22 , A . D . 1569 , in the sixty-seventh year of his age . A few months before he was attacked by the complaint which carried him to the grave , he had his likeness taken ; and when he was asked the reason by a friend , his reply was , that the period of his dissolution was not far distant , arid he was anxious that his family , when they saw that representation of him , should remember him , and call to mind the pious precepts which he
had inculcated upon them during his life . From that time he ceased not to meditate daily upon his approaching end ; and when it arrived , he met it with the calmness and composure of a Christian . He left behind him in his works many splendid monuments of genius and erudition . His introductory address to Valdez ' s " Considerations on a Religious Life" has been already mentioned . Besides editing that work , he translated into Latin Guicciardim ' s " History of the Wars of Italy , " and some of Ochino ' s
' * Sermons ; " and published a collection of •* Pasquinades , " in French and Italian , which were remarkable for the pungency of their wit . Among his original writings were many on the subjects of education , philology , grammar , logic , history , antiquities , and other topics connected vviih general literature . His theological and metaphysical works comprise an Essay on Providence , and another on the Immortality of the Soul ; a Paraphrase on
the Proem of John's Gospel ; Dialogues on the Extent of God ' s Kingdom ; and Christian Institutions . An excellent memoir of Curio , by a gentleman to whom our readers are under large and repeated obligations , was inserted in the Monthly Repository for 1823 ( p . 129 ) . In that memoir it was the object of the writer to represent him simply in the light of an Italian Reformer . We now venture to claim him as a believer in the sole and
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448 Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarian * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/16/
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