Lancellotti

Lancellotti (or LANCELOTTI), Giovanni Paoli (2), an Italian author and priest, was born at Perugia in 1575, and died in Paris in 1640. He is noted as the author of a successful work entitled To-day ("L'Hoggidi"), intended to prove that the world was not morally or physically worse than it had been in ancient times. He wrote also other learned works.