Villari

Villari, PASQUALE, historian, was born at Naples in 1827, took part in the revolution of 1848, became professor of History at Florence in 1866, has repeatedly sat in the Italian parliament, and in 1891 became minister of Public Instruction. He has written on Dante, essays, &c.; his best-known works are the lives of Savonarola (2 vols. 1859; 2d ed. 1887) and of Machiavelli (3 vols. 1877-82), and The First Two Centuries of Florentine History (1894-96), translated by his wife, Linda Villari (née White), an English lady who has written a series of novels, tales, and sketches (Camilla's Girlhood, A Double Bond, In Change Unchanged, On Tuscan Hills and Venetian Waters, &c.).