Enrico, a mathematician eminently skilled in the science of music, was descended of a noble family of Bologna, and born in that city, A.D. 1531. With a strong predilection for the ancient music, he attempted, as Vincentino and others had done, to introduce the ancient scales into practice, but with no better success. He corrected Gugavino's Latin version of Ptolemy in numberless instances, and to so good purpose, that Dr Wallis has in general conformed to it in his translation of that author. He translated into Italian Boetius de Musica, with such parts of Plutarch and Macrobius as relate to music. He also made annotations upon Aristoxenus, Franchinus, Spataro, Vincentino, Zarlino, V. Galilei, and, in short, on almost every musical treatise he could obtain, as appears by the copies once belonging to him, which are now deposited in various libraries in Italy. Bottrigari's works contain greater proofs of his learning and skill in music than of his abilities as a writer, his style being remarkably inelegant. Nevertheless he affected the character of a poet, and left a collection of poems, printed in 1557, 8vo. Walther represents him as an able mathematician, and says that he was possessed of a very rich and valuable cabinet of curiosities which the emperor Ferdinand II. had a great desire to purchase. He died in 1612, and not in 1609 as stated by Mazzucchelli. Some of his works have been printed, and others are still in manuscript. (Tiraboschi, vii.)