Giuliano Dati

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Giuliano Dati (1445–1524) was an Italian Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of San Leone from 1518 until his death in 1524. Born in 1445, he was appointed bishop on 26 February 1518 during the papacy of Pope Leo X. He wrote three notable works in the 1490s: a 1493 Italian ottava rima verse adaptation of Christopher Columbus’s account of his first voyage; a ca. 1494 Treatise on the Supreme Prester John, the legendary Pope and Emperor of India and Ethiopia, in which he poetically rewrites earlier descriptions and conflates India and Ethiopia; and a ca. 1495 Second Song of India describing the monsters in Prester John’s realm.