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PARINI, GIUSEPPE (1729-1799)

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PARINI, GIUSEPPE (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 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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