, a native of Bussetto, a small town in the duchy of Piacenza, was
, a native of Bussetto, a small town in the
duchy of Piacenza, was appointed in 1768 by the Infant
don Ferdinand to be professor of philosophy at Guastalla,
where he wrote his “Historia di Guastalla,
” 4 vols. 4to. It
commences with the reign of Charlemagne; comprizes the
three dynasties who governed that state: viz. the Torelli’s,
the Gonzago’s, and the Bourbons, dukes of Parma; and
finishes in 1776. On account of this work, he was appointed superintendant of the valuable library of Parma.
He is a diffuse writer, as he allows in his preface, but his
researches are valuable and correct. Writing under a
prince so particular as the last Infant, he was obliged to
suppress some things of a delicate kind. He wrote also
“Historia di Parma,
” printed there 2 vols. 4to, and
other works respecting the antiquities and the lives of the
sovereigns of these states. He left a manuscript history of
Peter Louis Farnese, which the Infant would not suffer to
be published. He died at the age of sixty, about the beginning of the present century.