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.

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[Footnote 4:]

Rosicrucius had been made fashionable by the Abbé de Villars who was assassinated in 1675. His