Girolamo Muzio or ''Mutio Justinopolitano'' (1496 in

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1576 in

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) was an Italian author in defence of the vernacular Italian language against Latin.

Biography

Girolamo Muzio was born at Padua in 1496, and educated there. He was honoured by

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with the title of Cavalier; and he was in the service of the marquis del Vasto; after whose death he passed into the service of Don

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, whose affairs he managed at several Italian courts. The duke of Urbino next appointed him governor to his son, afterwards duke

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. He was afterwards in the service of

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Ferdinando de' Medici. He died in 1576. In 1551 he published, along with other Italian poems, his ''Arte Poetica'', in three books, composed in

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. Besides letters, histories, moral treatises, he wrote several tracts against the Reformers, especially those of the Italian nation, who at that time were numerous. He first attacked Vergerio. He then contended with

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, and Betti; and he afterwards assailed

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, Muzio, in 1570, published a Roman Catholic history of the two first centuries, which made up in polemic zeal for what it wanted in sound erudition.

Works

* Il duello (Venice, 1550) * Il gentilhuomo (Venice, 1571) * Battaglie per diffesa dell'italica lingua (1582) * Poems for Tullia d’Aragona: Egloghe (1550) * Treatise of poetry after Horace (1551) * Against

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(1533–1574) * * Le mentite ochiniane (1551) against

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* Lettere catholiche, vol I-IV (1571)

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* 1496 births 1576 deaths Italian poets Italian male poets Italian philologists Italian Renaissance humanists People from Padua Italian Roman Catholic writers {{Italy-writer-stub