VIDA, MARCO GIROLAMO (c. 1489-1566), Italian scholar and Latin poet, was born at Cremona shortly before the year 1490 and died at Alba on Sept. 27, 1566. He entered the order of the Canonici Regolari Lateranensi, and made a repu tation by two Latin poems, on the Game of Chess and the Silk worm. On the strength of this he went to Rome, when Leo X. on
his succession (1513) gave him a priory and set him to compose a poem on the life of Christ. This Cliristiad is his most famous work. Between 152o and 1527 he produced another hexameter poem on the Art of Poetry (ed. Baldi, Wiirzburg, 1881). In 1532 he became bishop of Alba.
See the Life by Lancetti (Milan, 1840).