In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro, a Florentine physician, described typhus in his famous treatise on viruses and contagion, De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis.

His father was Girolamo LaRocca of Salaparuta, Sicily and his mother was Vita De Nina of Poggioreale, Sicily.

Opening of De rerum natura, 1483 copy by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Pope Sixtus IV

The most prominent figure among Arbëresh writers and the foremost figure of the Albanian nationalist movement in nineteenth century Italy was that of Girolamo de Rada known in Albanian as Jeronim De Rada.

* Girolamo Mercuriale of Forlì ( Italy ) writes the work De morbis cutaneis (" On the diseases of the skin "), the first scientific tract on dermatology.

Girolamo Mercuriale ( also known as Geronimo Mercuriali or by his Latin name Hieronymus Mercurialis ) ( September 30, 1530 – November 13, 1606 ) was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.

Critical Edition: Girolamo Mercuriale: De arte gymnastica.

( 2006 ) Girolamo Mercuriale: De arte gymnastica.

* Durling, R. J. Girolamo Mercuriale's De modo studendi.

* Girolamo De Caro † ( 1536 – 1552 )

Repeatedly, writers such as Ponce De Leon and Girolamo Cardano used personal experiences with Deaf individuals to demonstrate the injustice of such ideas.

The accusation, which Girolamo Tiraboschi's Storia della letterature italiana demonstrated to be groundless but which dogs his reputation, was that he had taken the finest passages in the work from Cicero's lost treatise De Gloria, and had then destroyed the only existing copy of the original in order to escape detection.

Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

The last maker of the family was Nicolo's son, Girolamo Amati, known as Hieronymus II ( February 26, 1649 – February 21, 1740 ).

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.

* 1480 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal ( d. 1542 )

Girolamo Aleandro ( also Hieronymus or Jerome Aleander ) ( 13 February 1480 – 1 February 1542 ) was an Italian cardinal, and the first cardinal appointed in pectore.

Gerolamo ( or Girolamo, or Geronimo ) Cardano (; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576 ) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.

* 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.

* 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

* 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man ( b. c. 1523 )

* 1715 – Girolamo Abos, Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music ( d. 1760 )

* 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian-Dominican priest and philosopher ( d. 1498 )

* 1583 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Ferrarese pianist and composer ( d. 1643 )

During the short reign ( 1494 – 1498 ) of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, the city of Florence could have been considered a theocracy.

* March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man ( b. c. 1523 )

* February 1 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal ( born 1480 )

* September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet ( b. 1490 )

* January 11 – Parmigianino ( Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola ), Italian artist ( d. 1540 )

* July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist ( b. 1519 )

* August 24 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian artist ( b. 1503 )

* March 1 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer ( b. 1583 )

While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory ( Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier ), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true.

* Martelli, Mario ( 1999c ), “ Machiavelli e Savonarola: valutazione politica e valutazione religiosa ”, Girolamo Savonarola.

In the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì he is accompanied by his Della Rovere and Riario nephews, not all of whom were made cardinals: the protonotary apostolic Pietro Riario ( on his right ), the future Pope Julius II standing before him, and Girolamo Riario and Giovanni della Rovere behind the kneeling Platina, author of the first humanist history of the Popes.

His son Borso received the title of duke for the imperial fiefs of Modena and Reggio from Emperor Frederick III in 1452 ( in which year Girolamo Savonarola was born here ), and in 1471 was made duke of Ferrara by Pope Paul II.

Pope Nicholas IV ( 30 September 1227 – 4 April 1292 ), born Girolamo Masci, was Pope from 22 February 1288 until his death.

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Most of his biographers reject or ignore the account of his younger brother and follower, Maurelio ( later fra Mauro ), that in his youth Girolamo had been spurned by a neighbor, Laudomia Strozzi, to whom he proposed marriage.

After a short, tense occupation of the city and another intervention by fra Girolamo ( as well as the promise of a huge subsidy ), the French resumed their journey southward on November 28, 1494.

For a time, Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), the unsavory Rodrigo Borja, tolerated fra Girolamo ’ s strictures against the Church, but he was moved to anger when Florence declined to join his new Holy League against the French invader and blamed it on Savonarola ’ s pernicious influence.

Many attempted to find a proof by contradiction, including Persian mathematicians Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen, 11th century ), Omar Khayyám ( 12th century ) and Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī ( 13th century ), and the Italian mathematician Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri ( 18th century ).

* San Marco in San Girolamo ( 18th century ), baroque church built by the Discalced Carmelites ;

Another early source from which the Black Legend drew support was Girolamo Benzoni's Historia nuovo ( New History ), first published in Venice in 1565.

* Girolamo Lando ( 1474-c. 1496 ), Archbishop of Crete

During its long history, this cathedral has been the seat of the Council of Florence ( 1439 ), heard the preachings of Girolamo Savonarola and witnessed the murder of Giuliano di Piero de ' Medici on Sunday, 26 April 1478 ( with Lorenzo Il Magnifico barely escaping death ) in the Pazzi conspiracy.

In particular, the treatises of Achille Marozzo ( 1536 ), Giovanni Battista Pigna ( 1554 ) and Girolamo Mutio ( 1560 ) have contributed to shed considerable light on the subject.

* Domenico Morgante, Girolamo Frescobaldi, in " Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti " ( DEUMM ), Le Biografie, vol.

* FREDERICK HAMMOND ( 1 – 7, bibliography ), ALEXANDERSILBIGER ( 8 – 15, work-list ): ' Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro, § 1: Ferrara, Rome and Flanders, 1583 – 1608 ', Grove Music Online ( Accessed December 4, 2006 ), < http :// www. grovemusic. com / shared / views / article. html? section = music. 10219. 1 >

Other Italian mock-heroic poems were La Gigantea by Girolamo Amelonghi ( 1566 ), the Viaggio di Colonia ( Travel to Cologne ) by Antonio Abbondanti ( 1625 ), L ' asino ( The donkey ) by Carlo de ' Dottori ( 1652 ), La Troja rapita by Loreto Vittori ( 1662 ), Il malmantile racquistato by Lorenzo Lippi ( 1688 ), La presa di San Miniato by Ippolito Neri ( 1764 ).