Luca Antonio Ridolfi

Luc’Antonio Ridolfi was born and had his early education in Florence. At the beginning of the thirties he settled to Rome and became to be known in the literary circles of that city. After the mur- der of Alessandro de’ Medici he took refuge at Lyon as many of his ‘Republican’ compatriots, but maintained close relations with many Florentine, which remained in Italy as Claudio Tolomei, Niccolò Martelli, Pietro Vettori and Benedetto Varchi. He had come to Lyon as a merchant, but started around 1542 to work for the printing house of Gauillaume Rouillé as editor and translator of Italian texts. He spent the last years before his death in Florence.