Girolamo Baruffaldi (10 July 1740 – 2 February 1817) was an Italian historian who wrote a biography of artists active in
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...
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Biography
Born in
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...
, he studied initially with the
Jesuit
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institute in
Novellara
Novellara ( Reggiano: or ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and has a population of 13,670. It is north of Reggio Emilia and has a railway station for the local train going from Reggio to Guastall ...
, entered the order, and was busy in preaching and teaching rhetoric when the order was suppressed in 1773. He returned to his native city and, noted for his scholastic knowledge, became the librarian for the public library, permanent secretary of the Accademia Ariostea, and prefect of local education. He established religious guilds in Ferrara for artists and other citizens. He died impoverished.
Works
* ''Vita della
Beata Beatrice II''.
* ''Saggio Letterario bibliografico della tipografia ferrarese''.
* ''Manifesto di Domenico Barbierie''.
* ''Notizia intorno a Pellegrino Maratti''.
* ''Notizia dell'arrivo, passaggio e permanenza di parecchi romani pontefici in Ferrara''.
* ''Commentario istorico della biblioteca ferrarese''.
* ''Vita di don Claudio Tedeschi''.
* ''Orazione per la promozione al cardinalato dell'amico Riminaldi''.
* ''Riposta ad un amico laontano''.
* ''Diatriba de veteri sigillo''.
* ''Saggio biografico critico de' genitori di
Lodovico Ariosto''.
* ''Osservazioni sopra un'antica iscrizione di Vico Aventino''.
* ''Riflessioni storico-critiche del canonoico Manini-Ferrani''.
* ''Memorie istoriche de' letterati ferraresi del Barotti''.
* ''Memorie di Bernardino Bartulcio''.
* ''Timone'', commedia di
Matteo Boiardo, reviewed and corrected by Girolamo Baruffaldi, posthumous work.
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1740 births
1817 deaths
Writers from Bergamo
18th-century Italian historians
Italian art historians
18th-century Italian Jesuits
Academic staff of the University of Milan
Writers from Ferrara