Grice e Muzio

 

Muzio was likely Girolamo Muzio (1496–1576), an Italian author and poet who wrote in defense of the vernacular Italian language

. 

Place of Birth

Girolamo Muzio was born in Padua, in the Republic of Venice, on March 12, 1496. His family was originally from 

Capodistria

 (modern-day 

Koper

), where he returned in 1504 after his father's death. 

Other Major Publications

Besides his famous work Battaglie per difesa della italica lingua (often titled simply as Battaglie), which defended the use of the Italian language against Latin, Muzio wrote several other volumes of poems, controversial treatises, and other works. 

His other known publications include:

• Rime et prose
   (1567), a collection of poems and prose, which included his defense of a specific poem ("Canzone") by Annibale Caro.
• L'Atamante
   (1578), a tragedy.
• Ragionamenti in defensa di Dante e del Petrarcha
   (1583), a work in defense of the poets Dante and Petrarch.
• Risposta allé opposizioni sanesi
  .
• Particelle poetiche sopra Dante
  .
• La poetica sopra Dante
  .
• Isagogicon ad Libellum
   (1518), an introduction/libretto in praise of Biagio Elcelio.
• A translation of the first four books of Virgil's 
  Aeneid
  into Italian ottava rima (1554). 

Muzio was a prominent figure in the intellectual and literary circles of the Italian Renaissance, working as a courtier, poet, and scholar.