# Paolo Cerrati

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{{short description|Italian lawyer and Latin poet}}
'''Paolo Cerrati''' (or '''Cerrato''') (1485–1540) was a lawyer and [Latin](/source/Latin_language) poet, best known for his long poem ''De Verginitate''.<ref name="fenoglio"/>

Born into a noble family of [Alba](/source/Alba_(CN)) in north-west Italy, he is said to have studied [belles lettres](/source/belles_lettres) under Dominico Rani, celebrated author of the ‘Polyantea’, and to have acquired a high reputation as a lecturer himself.<ref name="review">William Shakespeare Kenrick and others, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RM0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA439 ''The London Review of English and Foreign Literature''], XI (London: 1780), p. 439.</ref> In 1508 he produced a long [epithalamium](/source/epithalamium) for the marriage of [William IX](/source/William_IX_of_Montferrat), [Marquis of Montferrat](/source/Marquis_of_Montferrat) and [Anne d’Alençon](/source/Anne_d%E2%80%99Alen%C3%A7on).<ref>Hugh James Rose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aWEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171 ''A New general biographical dictionary''], 12 vols (London: Fellowes, 1840–1848), VI, ed. by Thomas Wright (1848), p.171.</ref> Having graduated in [civil](/source/Civil_law_(legal_system)) and [canon](/source/canon_law) law in 1511 he became a [lawyer](/source/lawyer) in his home town, where he also devoted his energies to the city's administration and that of its hospital.<ref name="fenoglio">[http://www.centrostudibeppefenoglio.it/Personaggi/personaggi_scheda.php?ID=22 ‘Paolo Cerrato’], Associazione Centro Studi di Letteratura Storia Arte e Cultura Beppe Fenoglio.</ref> ''De Verginitate'', seen as the most important of his many writings in the Latin language, was published in three volumes in 1524 in Paris.<ref name="fenoglio"/> When this, and others of his works, were published by Giuseppe Vernazza in 1778, they were described by ''[The London Review of English and Foreign Literature](/source/The_London_Review_of_English_and_Foreign_Literature)'' as being ‘of the heroic, epigrammatic, and erotic kind, written with great elegance and purity’.<ref name="fenoglio"/><ref name="review"/><ref>[George Crabb](/source/George_Crabb_(writer)), [https://archive.org/details/universalhistori10crab ''Universal historical dictionary''], enlarged edn, 2 vols (London: Baldwin and Cradock, and J. Dowding, 1833), I, s.v.</ref>

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Category:16th-century Italian writers
Category:16th-century Italian male writers
Category:Italian poets
Category:Italian male poets
Category:16th-century Italian lawyers
Category:1485 births
Category:1540 deaths
Category:16th-century writers in Latin
Category:Neo-Latin poets
Category:Writers from the Savoyard state

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