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DENINA, CARLO GIOVANNI MARIA (1731–1813)

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DENINA, CARLO GIOVANNI MARIA (1731–1813) , See also:Italian historian, was See also:born at Revello, See also:Piedmont, in 1731, and was educated at See also:Saluzzo and See also:Turin. In 1753 he was appointed to the See also:chair of humanity at Pignerol, but h2 was soon compelled by the See also:influence of the See also:Jesuits to retire from it. In 1756 he graduated as See also:doctor in See also:theology, and began authorship with a theological See also:treatise. Promoted to the professorship of humanity and See also:rhetoric in the See also:college of Turin, he published (1769–1772) his Delle revoluzioni d'Italia, the See also:work on which his reputation is mainly founded. Collegiate honours accompanied the issue of its successive volumes, which, however, at the same See also:time multiplied his foes and stimulated their hatred. In 1782, at See also:Frederick the See also:Great's invitation, he went to See also:Berlin, where he remained for many years, in the course of which he published his See also:Vie et regne de See also:Frederic II (Berlin, 1788) and La Prusse litteraire sous Frederic II (3 vols., Berlin, 1790–1791). His Delle revoluzioni della Germania was published at See also:Florence in 1804, in which See also:year he went to See also:Paris as the imperial librarian, on the invitation of See also:Napoleon. At Paris he published in 18o5 his Tableau de la Haute Italie, et See also:des Alpes qui l'entourent. He died there on the 5th of See also:December 1813.

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