Collatius, Petrus Apollonius

Collatius, Petrus Apollonius an Italian priest and poet, a native of Novarra, lived at the close of the15th century. He wrote, De Eversione urbis Jerusalem. Carmen Heroicum (Milan, 1481; republished under the title Apollonius, de Excidio Hierosolynitano, Paris, 1540; Antwerp, 1586), a poem on the destruction of Jerusalem under Vespasian: — Heroicum Carmen de Duello Davidis et Golica, Elegice et Epigrammata (ibid; 1692; republished several times). See Hoefer, Nouvi. Biog. Generale, s.v.