Italian scholar, born at Canelli, in Piedmont, on the 4th of June 1818; died in Florence on the 11th of January 1883. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the Clementine College at Rome (1837); then of philosophy at the Lyceum at Lugano (1839); of rhetoric at the University of Genoa (1848); and of Italian literature at Florence (1860). He made a profound study of Dante, and in 1845 published his celebrated Saggio di un Nuovo Commento della Commedia di Dante Allighieri. He was, for a time, censor of the press, and performed the duties of the office with much liberality. He published many works concerning Dante and the Italian language, among them being Sul Vivente Linguaggio della Toscana; Le Norme di Commentare la Divina Commedia; and Metodo di Commentare la Divina Commedia. He also published a critical and annotated edition of all the works of Dante.
