Paolo Cerrati

Paolo Cerrati (or Cerrato) (1485–1540) was a lawyer and Latin poet, best known for his long poem De Verginitate. In 1508 he produced a long epithalamium for the marriage of William IX, Marquis of Montferrat and Anne d’Alençon. Having graduated in civil and canon law in 1511 he became a lawyer in his home town, where he also devoted his energies to the city's administration and that of its hospital. De Verginitate, seen as the most important of his many writings in the Latin language, was published in three volumes in 1524 in Paris.