Major poet, novelist, critic, dramatist, revolutionary, and soldier. Served with the
French in Northern Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. Afterwards went into exile in
Switzerland, then London. Contributed to the *Edinburgh Review*, the *Quarterly Review*,
and the *New Monthly Magazine*. Author of tragedies, lyrical neo-classical sonnets,
and the first Romantic Italian novel, *Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis* (1802). Biographical
information: *Oxford Reference*. (CC)