Denina, Carlo, an Italian historian, born in Piedmont; banished from Italy for a cynical remark injurious to the monks; paid court to Frederick the Great in Berlin, where he lived a good while, and became eventually imperial librarian in Paris under Napoleon (1731‒1813).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Denham, Sir John * Denis