Ippolito Pindemonte
Italian poet
Died when: 75 years 5 days (900 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Ippolito Pindemonte (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an Italian poet.He was educated at the in Modena, but otherwise spent most of his life in Verona.
He was born into an aristocratic family, and travelled a great deal in his youth.He was a close friend of the mathematician and translator Giuseppe Torelli (1721–1781) and the scholar .
His brother was a prominent dramatist.He witnessed and was deeply affected by the French Revolution, residing in Paris for ten months during 1789.
He later spent time in England and Austria.A Romantic poet, he was principally influenced by Ugo Foscolo and Thomas Gray, and was associated with the Della Cruscans.
He devoted much of his life to a translation of the Odyssey, which was published in 1822.
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