ALLEANDRO, GIROLAMO, DETTO IL GIOVANE (PER DISTINGUERLO DAL CARDINALE OMONIMO, SUO ZIO)

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ALLEANDRO, Girolamo, called THE YOUNGER (to distinguish him from the cardinal of the same name, his uncle). — Scholar, b. at Motta di Livenza on 29 July 1574, d. at Rome on 9 March 1629.

After completing his legal and literary studies at Padua, he moved to Rome, where he became secretary to Cardinal Ottavio Bandini and, after twenty years, to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII. A member and “prince” of the Accademia degli Umoristi, he took the name l’Aggirato. He was buried in the basilica of St Lawrence in the Verano, where Barberini had a fine monument erected to him, designed by Pietro da Cortona; the bust is the work of F. Duquesnoy “il Fiammingo.”

Learned and versatile, he took part in the debates of his time on literary and scientific matters. He left some thirty works, about a third of them unpublished, covering literature, law, history and religion. Among them we may recall: 1) *Psalm pietantiales versibus elegicis expressi*, an early work (Treviso 1593); 2) a commentary on the *Institutions of Gaius*, fragments then known through the Pandects (Venice 1600); 3) the *Difesa dell’Adone del cav. Marino* (Venice 1629); 4) poetic compositions, *Carmina*, such as the “heroic song” in honour of the Virgin of St Luke in Bologna; 5) *Miscellaneous Dissertations and Letters*, four of which, concerning the Samaritans (on their characters, their shekels, the Samaritan Pentateuch), addressed to Jean Morin (v.), were reproduced in the *Antiquitates Ecclesiae Orientalis*, a posthumous work of the celebrated Oratorian, edited by R. Simon (London 1682).

BIBL.: Mazzuchelli, I, Brescia 1753, pp. 424-41, with a list of works; I. G. Pélissier, *Les amis d'Holstenius*, § III, in *Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Ecole Française de Rome*, 1888, pp. 323-402, 521-608; contains much correspondence of A. with the famous scholar Holstenius (v.), whom A. assisted and helped in his researches: R. Almagia, *L'Opera geografica di Luca Holstenio (Studi e Testi, 103)*. Vatican City 1942, passim. Igino Cecchetti

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Article illustration — Aleanino Girolamo – bust by Duquesnoy (1629).
Rome, basilica of St Lawrence in the Verano.