Giglio Gregorio Giraldi

• To the philosophers and physicians same surname, see Giambattista Giraldi.
• To the Norman- Welsh nobleman Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerallt Cymro, Gerald of Wales, 1146-1223 ) Giraldus Cambrensis see.

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Latin: Lilius Gregorius Giraldus Gyraldus or (* June 14 1479 in Ferrara, † February 1552 ) was an Italian scholar, poet and Mythograph the Renaissance.

Life

After his training in Ferrara Giraldi first went to Naples, where he associated with Jovian Pontanus and Jacopo Sannazaro, then to Lombardy to the family of Mirandola. In 1507 he studied with Demetrius Chalkondyles in Milan Greek and shortly after became tutor of the later Cardinal Ercole Rangone. Around the year 1514 he was appointed under Clement VII to the apostolic prothonotary. When he had, however, lost in the Sacco di Roma ( " the Sack of Rome " ) in 1527, his property and about the same time his patron Cardinal Rangone, he returned back to the impoverished Mirandola. But in the riots that of the murder reigning prince in 1533 followed, he was driven back and spent the rest of his life in poverty and poor health. Michel de Montaigne laments his end in one of his essays ( I.34 ).

Importance

Giraldi was known for his great learning. With De deis gentium historia he wrote a mythographisches manual, the only, the Mythologia of Natale Conti took its crown. With his treatises De annis et mensibus and calendarium Roman et Graecum he contributed to the emergence of the calendar reform of Pope Gregory XIII. with.

Writings (selection )

• De musis syntagma ( Argentorati 1507, 1511, 1539)
• Libellus in quo aenigmata pleraque antiquorum explicantur ( Basileae 1539, 1551 )
• Paroeneticus Liber adversus ingratos ( Florentiae 1539, 1548, 1551 )
• Herculis vita ( Basileae 1539, 1540)
• Symbolorum Pythagorae interpretations, cui sunt adiecta Pythagorica Praecepta mystica a Plutarcho interpretata ( Basileae 1539, 1551 )
• Libellus quomodo quis ingrati nomen et crimen effugere possit ( Basileae 1539, 1551 )
• De sepulchris et vario sepeliendi ritu ( Basileae 1539)
• Epithalamia ( 1539)
• Indicium vocalium ( 1539)
• Libellus De Re Nautica ( Basileae 1540)
• De Annis et Mensibus, caeterisque temporum partibus, difficili hactenus et impedita materia, dissertatio facilis et Expedita. Eiusdem calendarium et Romanum et Graecum, gentis utriusque solennia, ac rerum insigniter gestarum tempora complectens, magno historiis tum, tum caeteris autoribus cognoscendis usui futurum ( Basileae 1541)
• Historiae poetarum tam quam Graecorum Latinorum dialogical decem, quibus eorum scripta et vitae sic exprimuntur, ut ea perdiscere cupientibus, minimum iam laboris eat queat. Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo Ferrariensi autore ( Basileae 1545 )
• De Deis Gentium varia et multiplex Historia, in qua simul de eorum et imaginibus cognominibus agitur, ubi Plurima etiam multis hactenus ignota explicantur, et pleraque Clarius tractantur. Ad Herculem Estensem II Ferrariensem Ducem IV Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo Ferrariensi auctore ( Basileae 1548 Lugduni 1565)
• De Poetis nostrorum temporum dialogical duo ( Florentiae 1551 )
• Progymnasma adversus Litteras et Litteratos ( Florentiae 1551 )
• Lilii Gregorii Gyraldi Ferrariensis suarum quarundam Annotationum Dialogismi XXX. Ad amplissimum Cardinalem Salviatum. Item Laurentii Frizzolii Solaniensis dialogism unicus de vita et ipsius Lilii operibus ( Venetiis 1552)
• Opera Omnia I- II ( Basileae 1580; Lugduni 1696 )