Achilles Statius (or Aquiles Estaço) (12 June 1524,
Vidigueira – 17 September 1581) was a
Portuguese humanist
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and writer, since 1555 living in Rome, where he was a secretary of the pope.
Achilles Statius is now mostly known from his extensive
Latin
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commentary to
Catullus, published in 1566.
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1524 births
1581 deaths
People from Vidigueira
Portuguese Renaissance humanists
16th-century Portuguese writers
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