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TIRABOSCHI, GIROLAMO (17311794) , the first historian of Italian literature, was born at Bergamo on the 18th 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 (17661768) Vetera humiliatorum monumenta (3 vols.), a history of the extinct
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century is traced in detail, occupied eleven years, 17711782, and the thirteen quarto volumes embodying it appeared successively at Modena during that period. A second enlarged edition (16 vols.) was issued from 1787 to 1794, and was succeeded by many others, besides abridgments in German, French and English
Tiraboschi wrote besides Biblioteca modenese (6 vols., 17811786) ; Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, ed architetti modenesi (1786) ; Memorie storiche modenesi (5 vols., 1793-1794), and many minor works. He edited the Nuovo giornale dei letterati d'Italia (17731790), and left materials for a work
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