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ALEARDI, ALEARDO, COUNT (1812-1878)

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ALEARDI, ALEARDO, See also:COUNT (1812-1878) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at See also:Verona on the 4th of See also:November 1812, and thus soon after his See also:birth became an See also:Austrian subject. Inspired from his See also:cradle with a hatred of the foreigner, he found himself disqualified for the position in the public service to which his See also:rank would have entitled him, and unable to publish his patriotic verses. Arnaldo da Rocca, a narrative poem, nevertheless appeared in 1842, and the revolutionary See also:year 1848 made an opening for his Lettere a Maria. He took an active See also:part in the popular uprising, and was for some See also:time imprisoned. In 1856 he produced the finest of his pieces, an See also:ode to the maritime cities of See also:Italy, and in 1858 a poem on his own misfortunes. After the See also:expulsion of the Austrians from See also:Lombardy he returned to Verona, published his poems in a collected edition (1862), became See also:professor at the See also:Academy of See also:Fine See also:Art, member of the Italian See also:parliament and eventually senator. He died on the 19th of See also:July 1878. Aleardi's warmth of patriotic feeling hardly finds adequate expression in his See also:poetry; it is his merit to excel in description, but his See also:fault to substitute description for See also:action. See also:ALE-CONNER, an officer appointed yearly at the See also:court-leet of See also:ancient See also:English manors for the See also:assize of ale and ale-See also:measures. The gustatores cervisiae--called in different localities by the different names ale-tasters," " ale-founders," and ` aleconners "—were sworn to examine See also:beer and ale, to take care that they were See also:good and wholesome and were sold at proper prices. In See also:London four ale-conners, whose See also:duty it is to examine the measures used by beer and liquor sellers to guard against See also:fraud, are still chosen annually by the liverymen in See also:common See also:hall assembled on Midsummer See also:Day. Since ale and beer have become excisable commodities the See also:custom of appointing ale-tasters has in most places fallen into disuse.

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