Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti 1783 - 1854
Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti , Poet, revolutionary and scholar. Italian poet and political refugee from Naples; as member of secret society of Carbonari took part in Napoleonic revolution of 1820 and saluted it with patriotic odes; fled on return to power of King Ferdinand (1824); professor of Italian, King' s Coll., London (1831-47); eccentric commentator on Dante, showing the Inferno chiefly political and antipapal.
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| Born: Vasto, Naples, Italy 28th Feb 1783 | Baptised:
| | Died: London, , , England 24th Apr 1854 | Buried:
| | Family: Rossetti |
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