Vida

Vida, MARCO GIROLAMO, a 16th-century Latinist, was born at Cremona between 1480 and 1490, studied theology, was favoured by Leo X., who gave him a priory, and by Clement VII. was made Bishop of Alba, where he died 27th September 1566. He was at the Council of Trent, and was a friend of Cardinal Pole. Vida wrote Latin orations and dialogues, but is known mainly as a poet, remarkable for the grace of his Latin style rather than for his force of thought; his chief poems being Christias (1535) and De Arte Poetica (1527), others being on the silkworm and on the game of chess. There is a monograph by Lancetti (1840); and see Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy.