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GIUSEPPE PARINI (1729-1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARINI (1729-1799)  , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at Bosio in the Milanese, on the 22nd of May 1729 . His parents, who possessed a small See also:farm on the See also:shore of See also:Lake Pusiano, sent him to See also:Milan, where he studied under the Barnabites in the See also:Academy Arcimboldi, maintaining himself latterly by copying See also:manuscripts . In 1752 he published at See also:Lugano, under the See also:pseudonym of Ripano Eupilino, a small See also:volume of sciolto See also:verse which secured his See also:election to the Accademia dei Trasformati at Milan and to that of the Arcadi at See also:Rome . His poem, 11 Mattino, which was published in 1763, and which marked a distinct advance in Italian See also:blank verse, consisted of ironical instructions to a See also:young nobleman as to the best method of spending his mornings . It at once established See also:Parini's popularity and See also:influence, and two years later a continuation of the same theme was published under the See also:title of Il Mezzogiorno . The See also:Austrian plenipotentiary, See also:Count Firmian, interested himself in procuring the poet's See also:advancement, appointing him. in the first See also:place, editor of the Milan See also:Gazette, and in 1769, in despite of the See also:Jesuits, to a specially created See also:chair of belles lettres in the See also:Palatine School . On the See also:French occupation of Milan he was appointed See also:magistrate by See also:Napoleon and See also:Saliceti, but almost immediately retired to resume his See also:literary See also:work and to See also:complete Il Vespro and La Nolte (published after his See also:death), which with the two other poems already mentioned compose what is collectively entitled Il Giorno . Among his other poems his rather artificial Odi, composed between 1757 and 1795, have appeared in various See also:editions . He died on the 15th of See also:August 1799 . His See also:works, edited by Reina, were published in 6 vols . 8vo (Milan, 1801–1804) ; and an excellent See also:critical edition by G . Mazzoni appeared at See also:Florence in 1897 .

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