BARUFFALDI, GIROLAMO (SENIOR). - Man of letters, archpriest of Cento, b. at Ferrara in 1675, d. in 1755. He published scholarly pamphlets in Latin and in Italian; he took part in the Orsi-Bouhours dispute.

A languid but highly prolific versifier, he wrote sacred rhymes, burlesque capitoli and Anacreontic canzonette, Il grillo (Venice 1738), a playful poem, and the Canapajo (Bologna 1741), which opened the floodgates for the georgic poems of the eighteenth century; he is especially known for his dithyrambs, in imitation of Redi's Bacco in Toscana, which he called « bac-

canal ». The first he published was the Tabaccheide (Ferrara 1714); but there are fully 27 in the definitive posthumous edition (Bologna 1758), of slight artistic merit, but curious and interesting for the history of manners.

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BIBL.: D. Barbon, La vita, i tempi e le opere di G. B., Feltre 1905; A. E. Baruffaldi, Bibl. della famiglia B., in Atti e mem. della dep. ferr. di st. patria, 25 (1923).

Giulio Natali

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Baruffaldi, Girolamo (Senior)

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