Giovanni Gerardini ( Italian: Giovanni Gherardini ; May 27, 1778 , Milan - January 8, 1861 , Milan ) - Italian writer.
He received a medical education and worked as a doctor. Best known as the author of the libretto for the opera Gioacino Rossini, The Forty-Thief (1817). He published a dictionary-directory "Lessigrafia italiana" ( 1843 ), proposing spelling reform of the Italian language (in particular, with the abolition of double consonants), a biography of Gasparo Gozzi and a number of other essays. He made the editor-compiler of the collected works of Torquato Tasso ( 1823 ) and the collection of lyric dramas ( Italian: melodrama giocosa ) of the 18th century, translated A. V. Schlegel from German.