BARUFFALDI, GIROLAMO (JUNIORE). — Jesuit and man of letters, born in Ferrara in 1740, died in 1816.
Prefect of the municipal library of his city, he published, in addition to many short works on the history of Ferrara, a Vita di L. Ariosto (Ferrara 1807), which is the first complete monograph on Ariosto, and the Continuazione delle memorie dei letterati ferraresi by G. A. and D. Barotti (there 1811).
BIBL.: D. Vaccolini, in E. De Tipalde, Biografia degli Italiani illustri del sec. XVIII ecc., III, Venezia 1836, p. 211; A. E. Baruffaldi, Bibliografia della famiglia B., cited above. Giulio Natali