Giovanni Giacomo Gabiano (Romanengo CR, 1510 - Lodi, 1580) is best known for being the author of Laudiade, an epic didactic poem, in 3991 hexameters, which extolled the merits and merits, material and moral, of the city of Lodi. But Gabiano wrote much more, developing religious themes, suitable for interpreting his strong spiritual feeling. Placing himself in contrast with the Protestant reform, in the climate of post-Tridentine regeneration, the scholar infused poetic vigor to the figure of Mary and confirmed the artistic and didactic value of the images.
The works, collected here and translated for the first time, are the testimony of this artistic and edifying will of the author.

Professor of Human Letters at the Lodi High School, Giovanni Giacomo Gabiano embodies the spirit of that humanism that has been able to combine classicism with Christian inspiration. Through the careful use of Latin, especially in metric formulations, the author confirms that the language of our fathers is the only one still able to take up the past in all its expressive power and deliver it to the potential sensitivity of the present