biography
pronunciation:
[rozetee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1783–1854)
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| biography:
| Poet, scholar, and revolutionary, born in Vasto, SE Italy. He is best known as the father of four exceptionally talented children: Maria Francesca (1827–76), Dante Gabriel (1828–82), William Michael (1829–1919), and Christina (1830–94). Besides writing poetry he was a close student of Dante, whose Inferno he maintained was chiefly political and anti-papal. After the restoration of Ferdinand I to Naples, he joined the Carbonari secret society, and greeted the constitution demanded by the patriots in 1820 with a spirited verse, which heralded his death sentence. He fled first to Malta for three years, and then to London (1824), where he became professor of Italian at the new University of London. |
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