Tiraboschi

Tiraboschi, GIROLAMO, the historian of Italian literature, was born at Bergamo, 28th December 1731, studied at Monza, became a Jesuit, and was afterwards appointed to a chair of Rhetoric at Milan, and in 1770 became librarian to the Duke of Modena. Here he wrote his Storia della Letteratura Italiana (13 vols. 1772-82), an elaborate, accurate, and exhaustive survey down to the close of the 17th century. A continuation embracing the literature of the 18th century was written by Lombardi. Tiraboschi died at Modena, June 3, 1794. Other works are Vetera Humiliatorum Monumenta (3 vols. 1766-68), Biblioteca Modenese (1781-86), and Memorie Storiche Modenesi (1793).