Editing Bernardino Baldi

{{Short description|Italian mathematician, poet, translator and priest (1553–1617)}}
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'''Bernardino Baldi''' (5 June 1553 – 10 October 1617) was an Italian [[mathematician]], [[poet]], [[translator]] and [[priest]].

== 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He is said to have written upwards of a hundred different works, the chief part of which have remained unpublished.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.

==See also==
* [[List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics]]

==Writing==
[[Image:Baldi - Cronica de matematici, 1707 - 825289.jpg |thumb|''Cronica de matematici'', 1707]]

===Scientific works===
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=8EI8AAAAcAAJ De gli automati, overo machine se moventi, Libri 2] (Venice, 1589; repr. 1601), ''On [[Automaton]]s''; Author: [[Hero of Alexandria]], translated from the Greek 
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=sKlAAAAAcAAJ Scamilli impares Vitruviani] (Augsburg, 1612)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wvt2AdDE1k4C De Vitruvianorum verborum significatione] (Augsburg, 1612) -- a.k.a. Lexicon Vitruvianum 
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=pLVAAAAAcAAJ Heronis Ctesibii Belopoeeca] (Augsburg, 1616)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=xetK6gAMXGgC In mechanica Aristotelis] problemata exercitationes. (Aristotle's Mechanics) (Mainz, 1621)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=U51GAAAAcAAJ Cronica de matematici], overo Epitome dell'istoria delle vite loro (Urbino, 1707)

===Other works===

* La corona dell'anno (Venice, 1589)
* Versi e Prose di Monsignor Bernardino Baldi da Urbino (Venice, 1590)
* Il Lauro, scherzo giouenile (Pavia, 1600)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=z1oUiHBg4IYC La Deifobe, overo gli oracoli della Sibilla Cumea Monodia] (Venice, 1604) (About the Oracles of the [[Cumaean Sibyl]])
* Il Diluvio universale, cantato, con nuova maniera di versi (Pavia, 1604)
* Concetti morali (Rome, 1607)
* Oratione di Bernardino Baldi ... alla Serenità del nouvo Duce M. Antonio Memmo (Venice, 1613)
* In tabvlam aeneam Evgvbinam, lingua Hetrusca veteri perscriptam, divinatio (Augusta Vindelicorum, 1613)
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=rd8PAAAAQAAJ La Nautica: Poema]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jilcup58-EYC Encomio della patria] (1706)

==Notes==
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==References==
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* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baldi, Bernardino}}
* {{CathEncy|wstitle=Bernardino Baldi}}
* Rose, Rose and Wright, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Mk4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 A New General Biographical Dictionary (1857), pp. 46-48.] (in Google Books)
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==External links==
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*[http://hos.ou.edu/galleries//01Ancient/HeroOfAlexandria/1575//15thCentury/Vespucci//16thCentury/Baldi/ Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} High resolution images of works by and/or portraits of Bernardino Baldi in .jpg and .tiff format.

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