Girolamo Muzio
Girolamo Muzio or Mutio Justinopolitano (1496 in Padua, Republic of Venice – 1576 in Paneretta near Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany) was an Italian courtier, poet, and author in defence of the vernacular Italian language against Latin.
Works
Il duello (Venice, 1550)
Il gentilhuomo (Venice, 1571)
Battaglie per diffesa dell'italica lingua (1582)
Poems for Tullia d’Aragona: Egloghe (1550)
Treatise of poetry after Horace (1551)
Against Claudio Tolomei (1533–1574)
Difesa del cattolicesimo nelle Vergeriane (1550) against Pier Paolo Vergerio
Le mentite ochiniane (1551) against Bernardino Ochino
Lettere catholiche, vol I-IV (1571)
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