Giulio Negrone
# Giulio Negrone

Giulio Negrone or Iulius Nigronius (1553-1625) was a Jesuit humanist orator and scholar, who also wrote under the name Panfilo Landi.

## Biography

Born in Genoa in 1553, he joined the Society of Jesus in 1571. As Rector of the Accademia Partenia of Rome, he wrote a treatise on the chain impresa of the academy, emphasising its Neoplatonic and Christian connotations. He was a professor of rhetoric, philosophy and theology at Milan and Genoa. Among his pupils was the future Cardinal Odoardo Farnese. He undertook with Claudio Acquaviva's approbation a copious ascetical commentary on the Common Rules (Regulae Communes Societatis Iesu), published in Milan in 1613. A staunch Ciceronian, Negrone was the author of a number of rhetorical works. He died in Milan in 1625.

## Works

* Impresa dell'accademia Partenia di Roma. Rome: Luigi Zannetti. 1594.
* Orationes XXV. Milan. 1608.
* Regulæ communes Societatis Jesu, commentariis asceticis illustratæ. Milan. 1613.
* Dissertatio subseciva de caliga veterum. Dillingen: Ulrich Rem. 1621.
* Tractatus ascetici, 1623.
