Angelo Grillo

Angelo Grillo
Engraved portrait of Angelo Grillo from the book Le glorie de gli incogniti, Venice, Francesco Valvasense, 1647
Titleabbot
Personal life
BornVincenzo Grillo
1557
DiedOctober 1629(1629-10-00) (aged 71–72)
NationalityItalian
Parent(s)Nicolò Grillo and Barbara Grillo (née Spinola)
Known forPietosi affetti
Other namesLivio Celiano
Occupation
  • Poet
  • Christian monk
Religious life
ReligionRoman Catholicism
OrderBenedictines
Ordination14 September 1572

Dom Angelo Grillo OSB (1557 – October 1629) was an Italian early Baroque poet belonging to the noble Genoese family of the Spinola. He wrote mostly religious verse under his own name, but as Livio Celiano, his pseudonym, he wrote amorous madrigal texts.