Agucchio, Dovanni Battista, an Italian ecclesiastic, was born at Bologna, Nov. 20,1570. He was educated under the care of his uncle, cardinal Philip Sega. After his death, Agucchio was appointed secretary to cardinal Aldobrandini, and attended him when he went as legate to Henry IV of France. He continued in this employment, with a short intermission, until the death. of the cardinal, when he became secretary to Gregory XV. In 1624 Urban VIII sent him as nuncio to Venice, but the contagious distemper which ravaged Italy in 1630 obliged him to retire to Friuli, where he died in 1632. His works are, A Treatise upon Comets and Veteors:-The Life of Cardinal Sega and of Jeronme Aucchio .-and a letter to the canon Bartolommeo Dolcini, entitled L'Antica Fondazione e Dominio della Citta di Bologna (Bologna, 1638, 4to). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More