Rossetti, Gabriele, Italian poet and orator, born at Vasto; had for his patriotic effusions to leave Italy, took refuge in London, and became professor of Italian in King's College, London; was a man of strong character, and student of literature as well as man of letters himself; was the father of Dante Gabriel and Christina (1783‒1854).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina * Rossi, Pellegrino