Girolamo Aleandro, an Italian prelate and scholar, born Feb. 13, 1480, died Jan. 31, 1542. He was early distinguished for great and varied learning, and was associated with Aldus Ma-nutius and Erasmus at Venice. In 1508 Louis XII. called him to Paris, where he became rector of the university. He was afterward chancellor of the bishopric of Liege, in 1517 librarian of the Vatican at Rome, and in 1520 papal envoy to Germany to oppose Luther's heresy, which he did especially at the diet of Worms in the following year. Clement VII. made him archbishop of Brindisi and papal nuncio in France, and in company with Francis I. he was taken prisoner at Pavia in 1525, and ransomed. In 1531 he was again papal nuncio in Germany, and afterward in Venice, and in 1538 he was made cardinal. Of his numerous writings none were published hut a Greek-Latin lexicon, an abridged Greek gram- mar, and a short Latin poem.