Ermes di Colorêt

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Ermes di Colorêt (March 28, 1622 - September 21, 1692) was an Italian nobleman and writer who served the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Holy Roman Emperor.

He was born in Colloredo di Monte Albano, Friuli. During the Thirty Years' War, he served as an imperial official. Ermes was educated at Medici's court in Florence, and worked in the service of the Republic of Venice and Leopold I of Habsburg; in the last part of his life he returned to his homeland to focus on writing poetry, most of which centers on the theme of love.

He is important for the fact that he wrote more than 200 poems in the Friulian language. He used the koinè from Udine, which would become the most notable literary language and the basis of today's standard Friulian.

He died in Guriciz, Codroipo.