, one of the most valuable Italian writers of the last century, was
, one of the most valuable Italian writers of the last century, was born at Bergamo, in
the Venetian states, Dec. Js, 1731. He was sent to the
Jesuits’ college at Monza; and when his course of education was completed in 1746, he entered into the order of
that society. In 1754, when in his twenty-third year, he
was appointed preceptor of grammar, and afterwards of
rhetoric, in the college of Brera, in Milan. In that station, in 1755, he republished, for the use of his pupils,
the well-known vocabulary of his late colleague, father
Mandosio, “Vocabolorio Italiano e Latino del P. Mandosio accrescinto e corretto
” and, from 1756 to 1760, he
wrote several orations and other fugitive pieces, in which
inight be perceived the bent of his mind towards civil and
literary history. Of these Fabroni mentions only one as
having been published, “DePatriae Oratio,
” Milan,