GIULIANI, GIAMBATTISTA an Italian Dante scholar, was born at Canelli, near Asti, on June 4, 1818. He was originally a professor of mathematics, but from onwards devoted himself exclusively to the study of Dante. In 186o he became professor of literature at Florence, where he gave a famous series of lectures on Dante. He completed a crit ical text of the Convito (2 vols., 1875), and of the Latin works (2 vols., 1878-82) of Dante, but his great commentary was left incomplete. He died at Florence on Jan. 11, 1884.