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GIRALDI, See also:GIGLIO GREGORIO [LILIus GREGORIUS GYRALDUS] (1479-1552) , See also:Italian See also:scholar and poet, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:June 1479, at See also:Ferrara, where he See also:early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. On the completion of his See also:literary course he removed to See also:Naples, where he lived on See also:familiar terms with Jovianus See also:Pontanus and See also:Sannazaro; and subsequently to See also:Lombardy, where he enjoyed the favour of the See also:Mirandola See also:family. At See also:Milan in 1507 he studied See also:Greek under Chalcondylas; and shortly afterwards, at See also:Modena, he became See also:tutor to Ercole (afterwards See also:Cardinal) Rangone. About the See also:year 1514 he removed to See also:Rome, where, under See also:Clement VII., he held the See also:office of apostolic protonotary; but having in the See also:sack of that See also:city (1527), which almost coincided with the See also:death of his See also:patron Cardinal Rangone, lost all his See also:property, he returned in poverty once more to Mirandola, whence again he was driven by the troubles consequent on the assassination of the reigning See also:prince in 1533• The See also:rest of his See also:life was one See also:long struggle with See also:ill-See also:health, poverty and neglect; and he is alluded to with sorrowful regret by See also:Montaigne in one of his Essais (i. 34), as having, like See also:Sebastian Castalio, ended his days in utter destitution. He died at Ferrara in See also:February 1552; and his See also:epitaph makes touching and graceful allusion to the sadness of his end. Giraldi was a See also:man of very extensive erudition; and numerous testimonies to his profundity and accuracy have been given both by contemporary and by later scholars. His Historia de diis gentium marked a distinctly forward step in the systematic study of classical See also:mythology; and by his See also:treatises De annis et mensibus, and on the Calendarium Romanum et Graecum, he contributed to bring about the reform of the See also:calendar, which was ultimately effected by See also:Pope See also:Gregory XIII. His Progymnasma adversus literal et literates deserves mention at least among the curiosities of literature; and among his other See also:works to which reference is still occasionally made are Historiae poetarum Graecorum ac Latinorum; De poetis suorum temporum; and De sepultura ac vario sepeliendi ritu. Giraldi was also an elegant Latin poet. His See also:Opera omnia were published at See also:Leiden in 1696.

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