BALDI, BERNARDINO (1533-1617), Italian mathema tician and miscellaneous writer, was born at Urbino and was abbot of Guastalla for 25 years. He is said to have written loo different works, the chief part of which have remained unpub lished. He was a theologian, mathematician, geographer, anti quary, historian and poet. The Cronica dei Matematici (pub lished at Urbino in 1707) is an abridgement of a larger work, on which he had bestowed 12 years of labour, and which was intended to contain the lives of more than 200 mathematicians. His life has been written by Affo, Mazzuchelli and others.