Tiraboschi, Girolamo, an Italian writer, who for some time filled the chair of Rhetoric at Milan University, and subsequently became librarian to the Duke of Modena; is celebrated for his exhaustive survey of Italian literature in 13 vols., a work of the utmost value (1731‒1794).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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