BARUFFALDI, GIROLAMO (SENIORE). — Man of letters, archpriest of Cento, born in Ferrara in 1675, died in 1755. He published scholarly booklets in Latin and Italian; he took part in the Orsi-Bouhours dispute.
Languid, but extremely prolific as a versifier, he wrote sacred poems, burlesque capitoli, and Anacreontic canzonettas, Il grillo (Venice 1738), a playful short poem, and the Canapajo (Bologna 1741), which opened the way for the Georgic poems of the eighteenth century; he is especially known for his dithyrambs, modelled on Redi’s Bacco in Toscana, which he called « bac-
chanal». The first he published was the Tabaccheide (Ferrara 1714); but as many as 27 appear in the definitive posthumous edition (Bologna 1758), of little artistic merit, but curious and interesting for the history of customs.