Giovanni Antonio Viperani (1535 - March 1610) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Giovinazzo (1589–1610).
On 17 May 1589, he was appointed by Pope Sixtus V as Bishop of Giovinazzo in the region of Apulia.
[1] A learned humanist, Viperani achieved some early fame with a systematic treatise on the writing of history (De scribenda historia, 1569) and wrote numerous other works, always in Latin, over the subsequent three decades, on biography, providence, and virtue, among many others, as well as a volume of his own poems.
Viperani's De scribenda historia was included in the Artis Historicae Penus of 1579.
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