Girolamo Aleandro

This article is about the cardinal. For his grandnephew, the scholar, see Girolamo Aleandro (1574–1629).

Girolamo Aleandro (also Hieronymus Aleander;[1] 13 February 1480 – 1 February 1542) was an Italian humanist, linguist, and cardinal.

  1. ^ Aleandro, is sometimes called "the elder," to distinguish him from his grand-nephew, also called Girolamo Aleandro (1594–1629). The younger Aleandro was a very distinguished scholar (Chisholm 1911)