Poet, novelist, critic, essayist, dramatist, 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, Last Letters
of Jacopo Ortis). Biographical information: *Oxford Reference*. (CC)