Editing Bernardino Baldi (section)

== Biography ==
Baldi descended from a noble family from [[Urbino]], [[Marche]], where he was born. He pursued his studies at [[Padua]], and is said to have spoken about sixteen languages during his lifetime, though according to [[Girolamo Tiraboschi|Tiraboschi]] the inscription on his tomb limits the number to twelve.

The appearance of the plague at [[Padua]] forced him to return to his native city. Shortly afterwards he was called to act as tutor to [[Ferrante Gonzaga]], from whom he received the rich abbey of [[Guastalla]]. The oldest biography of [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] was completed on 7 October 1588 by him.<ref>On the revolutions, Foundations of natural history, Band 1, p.335, Nicolaus Copernicus: Complete Works, Edward Rosen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.</ref> He held office as [[abbot]] for 25 years, and then returned once again to Urbino. In 1612, he was employed by the duke as his envoy to [[Venice]]. Baldi died at Urbino on 12 October 1617.

He is said to have written upwards of a hundred different works, the chief part of which have remained unpublished. His various works show his abilities as a [[theology|theologian]], [[mathematician]], [[geographer]], [[antiquary]], [[historian]] and [[poet]]. His ''Cronica dei Matematici'', a collection of lives of mathematicians, from antiquity to his own time, was conceived in emulation of [[Giorgio Vasari|Vasari]]'s ''[[Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Lives]]'', and was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians. The work was not published in the Renaissance, but an abridgement appeared in Urbino in 1707. His life has been written of by [[Ireneo Affò]] and [[Giammaria Mazzucchelli]], among others.