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| (1775–1821)
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| Poet, born in Milan, Lombardy, N Italy. The son of an Austrian government official, he embraced Napoleon's reforms and worked in the Cisalpine Republic's treasury department. After its fall, he stayed in touch with liberal circles and grouped together his intellectual friends (among them Giovanni Berchet, Emilio Visconti, and Tommaso Grossi) in what was known as the Camaretta. His fame rests on his production in Milanese dialect; it includes an anticlerical satire Ona vision (1812) and, notably, his realistic descriptions of daily life and the misfortunes that befall ordinary people in I desgrazi de Giovannin Bongee (1812), La Ninetta del Verzee (1814), and El lament del Marchionn di gamb avert (1816). |
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