Giovan Paolo Parisio, who used the classicised pseudonym Aulo Giano Parrasio or Aulus Janus Parrhasius, was a humanist scholar and grammarian from Cosenza, in Calabria in southern Italy.
Career
He was thus sometimes known as "Cosentius". He was resident in Milan in the first years of the sixteenth century, and was noted as a teacher. He is known for his commentary on the De Raptu Proserpinae of Claudian.
Some letters of his on philology were later published, in 1567, as Liber De rebus epistolam quaesitis.
Membership
He was a member of the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples, and founded the Accademia Cosentina, an accademia or learned society in Cosenza, in 1511-1512.:20.