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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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GIUSEPPE

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

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