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PRATI, GIOVANNI (1815–1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PRATI, GIOVANNI (1815–1884)

PRATI, GIOVANNI (1815–1884) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Dasindo and educated in See also:

law at See also:

PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua. Adopting a See also:

LITERARY

literary career, he was inspired by See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian feeling and devotion to the royal See also:

house of See also:

Savoy, and in See also:

early See also:

LIFE

life his See also:

COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of a sympathy for See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, Guerrazzi expelling him from See also:

Tuscany in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto. In 1862 he was elected a See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy to the Italian See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, and in 1876 a senator. He died at See also:

Rome on the 9th of May 1884. Prati was a prolific poet, his volumes of See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse ranging from his romantic narrative Ermenegarda (1841) to the lyrics collected in Psiche (1875) and Iside (1878). His Opere varie were published in five volumes in 1875, and a selection in one See also:

VOLUME

volume in 1892.

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