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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552)

Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (jē-räl’dē). An Italian poet and scholar; born in Ferrara, June 13, 1479; died there, Feb. 1552. His most valuable works, ‘Historia de Diis Gentium,’ a manual of classical mythology; ‘De Annis et Mensibus,’ a treatise on the calendar; ‘Historiæ Poetarum Græcorum ac Latinorum,’ a study in classical literary biography; and several more, are still quoted.