Vincenzo Monti
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Vincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian Neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considere
Portrait by Andrea Appiani, 1809
Frontispiece and title page of Vincenzo Monti's Aristodemo (Parma, 1786)
Abbondio Sangiorgio, Busto di Vincenzo Monti (1833) di trequarti
Tragedie, 1816
Lorenzo Mascheroni
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Lorenzo Mascheroni was an Italian geometer and mathematician best known for proving that all Euclidean constructions achievable with a compass and straightedge can also be done using only a compass. H
Vincenzo Monti
…of the new Kingdom of Italy. Soon after his return, Monti published his tragedy of Caio Gracco, La Mascheroniana, a poem on the death of his friend Lorenzo Mascheroni, and his beautiful and popular hymn Per la liberazione d'Italia. In 1802, Monti was appointed to the chair of eloquence and poetry in the University…
Engraved portrait of Lorenzo Mascheroni by Francesco Redenti (1837)
La geometria del compasso, 1797