Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479 1552) received an
excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools
of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron,
he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where
he entered the service of Gianfrancesco Pico; Milan, where he
studied Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles; and Rome, where he
enjoyed the munificence of Pope Leo X. Following the sack of Rome
in 1527, Giraldi eventually made his way back to Ferrara, where he
spent the last years of his life.
Giraldi was the author of many works on literary history,
mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his
dialogues, translated here into English for the first time. Modeled
on Cicero s "Brutus," the work discusses hundreds of contemporary
neo-Latin and vernacular poets, giving a panoramic view of European
poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century from Great
Britain to Greece, but concentrating above all on Italy.
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