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GROSSI, TOMMASO (1791-1853)

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GROSSI, TOMMASO (1791-1853) , Lombard poet and novelist, was See also:born at Bellano, on the See also:Lake of See also:Como, on the loth of See also:January 1791. He took his degree in See also:law at See also:Pavia in 181o, and proceeded thence to See also:Milan to exercise his profession; but the See also:Austrian See also:government, suspecting his See also:loyalty, interfered with his prospects, and in consequence Grossi was a See also:simple See also:notary all his See also:life. That the suspicion was well grounded he soon showed by See also:writing in the Milanese See also:dialect the See also:battle poem La Prineide, in which he described with vivid See also:colours the tragical See also:death of See also:Prina, See also:chief treasurer during the See also:empire, whom the See also:people of Milan, instigated by Austrian See also:agitators, had torn to pieces and dragged through the streets of the See also:town (1814). The poem, being See also:anonymous, was first attributed to the celebrated Porta, but Grossi of his own See also:accord acknowledged himself the author. In 1816 he published other two poems, written likewise in Milanese—The See also:Golden See also:Rain (La Pioggia d' oro) and The Fugitive (La Fuggitiva). These compositions secured him the friendship of Porta and See also:Manzoni, and the three poets came to See also:form a sort of romantic See also:literary triumvirate. Grossi took See also:advantage of the popularity of his Milanese poems to try See also:Italian See also:verse, into which he sought to introduce the moving See also:realism which had given such See also:satisfaction in his earliest compositions; and in this he was entirely successful with his poem Ildegonda (1814). He next wrote an epic poem, entitled The See also:Lombards in the First Crusade, a See also:work of which Manzoni makes See also:honourable mention in I Promessi Sposi. This See also:composition, which was published by subscription (1826), attained a success unequalled by that of any other Italian poem within the See also:century. The example of Manzoni induced Grossi to write an See also:historical novel entitled Marco See also:Visconti (1834)—a work which contains passages of See also:fine description and deep pathos. A little later Grossi published a See also:tale in verse, Ulrico and Lida, but with this publication his poetical activity ceased. After his See also:marriage in 1838 he continued to employ himself as a notary in Milan till his death on the loth of See also:December 1853.

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Cantu appeared at Milan in 1854.

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