BARUFFALDI, GIROLAMO (THE YOUNGER). - Jesuit, man of letters, born in Ferrara in 1740, died in 1816.
Prefect of the municipal library of his city, he published, besides many small works on Ferrarese history, a Life of Ariosto (Ferrara 1807), which is the first complete monograph on the poet, and the Continuation of the memoirs of the Ferrarese men of letters by G. A. and D. Barotti (ibid. 1811).
Bibl.: D. Vaccolini, in E. De Tipaldo, Biografie degli Italiani illustri del secolo XVIII, III, Venice 1836, p. 211; A. E. Baruffaldi, Bibliografia della famiglia B., cited above.