, as it was called—from verse to prose. He began in 1630 with a prose tract, the Hero, laboured in short ingenious sentences, which went through six editions. He wrote also an
Art of Poetry
after the new style. His chief work was the
Criticon
, an allegory of the Spring, Autumn, and Winter of life. The
Discreto
was one of his minor works. All that he wrote was published, not by himself, but by a friend, and in the name of his brother Lorenzo, who was not an ecclesiastic.