GIRALDI, LILIO GREGORIO, an ingenious critic, and one of the most learned men that modern Italy has produced, was born at Ferrara in 1479. He was at Rome when it was plundered by the emperor Charles V.; and having thus lost all he had, and being tormented by the gout, he struggled through life with ill fortune and ill health. He wrote, nevertheless, 17 performances, which were collected and published at Basil in 2 vols. folio in 1580, and at Leyden in 1696. Authors of the first rank have bestowed the highest eulogies on Giraldus; particularly Casaubon and Thuanus.