Simone MajoliSimon Majoli, Simone Maioli, Simon Maioli, Simone Majolo, Simon Majolus, Simon Maiolus. (1520 – 9 January 1597)Lynn Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science Part 12, p. 110. was an Italian canon lawyer,, in Italian. bishop and author. (in Latin)"Bishop Simone Majolo" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016 His encyclopedic work Dies canicularesMAIOLO, Simeone (Dog days), covered a wide range of topics in natural history, demonology and other subjects such as werewolves. First published in 1597, it ran to several later editions. He is mentioned in the early history of the explanation of fossils, by Charles Lyell,Principles of Geology (1840) p. 39; . as a pioneer of volcanic explanations.
He was born in Asti.Jean-Pierre Niceron, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la république (1734), p. 332. On 16 Jun 1572, Simone Majoli was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino. He served as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino until his death on 1597.
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