Type: Person

Name: Aegidius Viterbiensis

Dates: 1465 — 1532

Gender: male

Variant names: Antonini, Egidio; Giles of Viterbo

Biographical details: 1465/9-1532; OESA;DTC VI 1365-71; J. W. O’Malley, Giles of Viterbo on Church and Reform (Leiden, 1968); Aegidius Viterbiensis is sometimes incorrectly called Antonius Aegidius Canisius; on the name form see G. Signorelli, Il Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo (Florence, 1929), I 119-21, and F. X. Martin, `The Problem of Giles of Viterbo’, Augustiniana, 9 (1959), 357-79; 10 (1960), 43-60.

Editor: MAPF

Start of time period: 15th century AD

End of time period: 16th century AD

Period: early modern; humanist

Characterisation: religious

Place: Viterbo

Country: Italy