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Girolamo Mei

1519 - 1594

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Girolamo Mei (27 May 1519 – July 1594) was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama. He was born in Florence, and died in Rome and also used the pseudonym Decimo Corinella da Peretola. Mei was the first European after Boethius to do a detailed study of ancient Greek music theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Girolamo Mei has received more than 33,836 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Girolamo Mei is the 345th most popular historian (down from 333rd in 2019), the 3,299th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,226th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Italian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Girolamo Mei ranks 345 out of 561. Before him are Timothy D. Snyder, Benny Morris, John King Fairbank, Ronald Syme, Heinrich Zimmer, and Ernest Fenollosa. After him are Jérôme Carcopino, Fernão Lopes, William H. Prescott, John Keegan, Robert Darnton, and Ernest Labrousse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1519, Girolamo Mei ranks 18. Before him are Andrea Cesalpino, Antonis Mor, Thomas Gresham, Frans Floris, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.  Among people deceased in 1594, Girolamo Mei ranks 11. Before him are Ishikawa Goemon, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Martin Frobisher, Bálint Balassi, Alonso de Ercilla, and Thomas Kyd. After him is William Allen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Girolamo Mei ranks 3,299 out of 5,161. Before him are Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948), Maurizio Costanzo (1938), Giuseppe Adami (1878), Eleonora Giorgi (1953), Pino Puglisi (1937), and Rino Gaetano (1950). After him are Titus Didius (-200), Francesco Tamagno (1850), Tullio Pinelli (1908), Dorian Gray (1931), Alessandro Striggio (1540), and Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (-600).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Girolamo Mei ranks 23. Before him are Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Festus (390), Annius of Viterbo (1437), Marino Sanuto the Younger (1466), Filippo Baldinucci (1625), and Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200). After him are Michele Amari (1806), Andrea Riccardi (1950), Dino Compagni (1255), and Alessandro Barbero (1959).

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