Giuseppe Barbieri

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Contemporary portrait, copper engraving 1833

Giuseppe Barbieri (born December 26, 1774 in Bassano del Grappa , † November 10, 1852 in Padua ) was an Italian poet and pulpit speaker.

Barbieri studied the beautiful sciences in Padua under Cesarotti and was then his successor as professor of rhetoric and later of constitutional law at the university there. In 1815 he retired to his country estate in the Euganean Hills , where he wrote his best works and which he only left from time to time to preach in the various cities of Italy. In 1848 he was called back to his chair in Padua , but died in 1852.

Works

  • "Orazioni quaresimali" (collection of fasting sermons )
  • "Poemetti"
  • "Colli Euganei"
  • "Le stagioni" ("The Seasons")
  • "Epistole"

literature