1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO (1731-1794), the first historian of Italian literature, was born at Bergamo on the i8th of December 1731. He studied at the Jesuit college at Monza, entered the order, and was appointed in 1755 professor of eloquence in the university of Milan. Here he produced (1766-1768) Vetera humiliatorum monumenta (3 vols.), a history of the extinct order of the Humiliati, which made his literary reputation. Nominated in 1770 librarian to Francis III., duke of Modena, he turned to account the copious mater…
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