Carlo Denina
Carlo Denina | |
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| Born | 28 February 1731 Revello |
| Died | 5 December 1813(aged 82) Paris |
Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina(1731,Revello– 5 December 1813, Paris) was an Italian historian whose unique contribution was to write a history of Italy from a “national” perspective, which significantly differed from other historians who mainly wrote from a “city state” or “localized” perspective during that time.[1]
He was born atRevello,Piedmont,in 1731, and was educated atSaluzzoandTurin.In 1753 he was appointed to the chair of humanity atPinerolo,but he was soon compelled by the influence of theJesuitsto retire from it. In 1756 he graduated as doctor intheology,and began authorship with a theological treatise.[2]
Promoted to the professorship of humanity and rhetoric in the college of Turin, he published (1769–1770) hisDelle revoluzioni d'Italia,the work on which his reputation is mainly founded. Collegiate honors accompanied the issue of its successive volumes, which, however, at the same time multiplied his foes and stimulated their hatred.[2]
In 1782, atFrederick the Great's invitation, he went to Berlin, where he remained for many years, in the course of which he published hisVie et régne de Frédéric II(Berlin, 1788) andLa Prusse littéraire sous Frédéric II(3 vols., Berlin, 1790–1791). HisDelle revoluzioni della Germaniawas published atFlorencein 1804, in which year he went toParisas the imperial librarian, on the invitation ofNapoleon.At Paris he published in 1805 hisTableau de la Haute Italie, et des Alpes qui l'entourent.He died there in 1813.[2]
The French politician and poetJoseph Aurèle de Bossistudied law under his direction.[citation needed]
Works
[edit]Carlo Denina left a great many works, most of them in Italian, including:
- 1760:Discours sur les vicissitudes de la littérature;
- 1770:Révolutions d'Italie,1769et1820(translated by abbé Jardin from 1770);
- 1781:Histoire politique et littéraire de la Grèce;
- 1788:Essai sur la vie de Frédéric II,in French;
- 1790: laPrusse littéraire sous Frédéric II;
- 1804:Révolutions de la Germanie;
- 1805:Histoire du Piémont;
- 1805: laClef des langues(in French);
- 1809:Histoire de l'Italie occidentale.
References
[edit]- ^Chapman, Tim (1 January 2008).The Risorgimento, Italy, 1815-1871: Italy, 1815-1871.London: Humanities-Ebooks. p. 8.ISBN978-6-612-04062-7.Retrieved12 February2022.
- ^abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Denina, Carlo Giovanni Maria".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 21.
