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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 31,989 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Girolamo Mei is the 333rd most popular historian, the 3,236th most popular biography from Italy and the 24th most popular Italian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Girolamo Mei ranks 333 out of 339. Before him are Nicholas Adontz, Gerhard Ritter, Jacob Talmon, Fenestella, Andrea Riccardi, and Fritz Stern. After him are Thomas Fuller, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Chimalpahin, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Efraim Zuroff, and Jan T. Gross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1519, Girolamo Mei ranks 18. Before him are Antonis Mor, Andrea Cesalpino, 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 Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Ishikawa Goemon, Martin Frobisher, Bálint Balassi, Alonso de Ercilla, and Thomas Kyd.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Girolamo Mei ranks 3,236 out of 4,668. Before him are Carlo Ceresoli (1910), Debora Caprioglio (1968), Andrea Riccardi (1950), Vittorio Messori (1941), Antonio Janigro (1918), and Ottavio Bianchi (1943). After him are Maurizio Micheli (1947), Giuseppe Impastato (1948), Carlo Maria Abate (1932), Italo Montemezzi (1875), Luigi Palmieri (1807), and Alberto Grimaldi (1925).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Girolamo Mei ranks 24. Before him are Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200), Filippo Baldinucci (1625), Michele Amari (1806), Dino Compagni (1255), and Andrea Riccardi (1950). After him are Alessandro Barbero (1959).

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