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An Italian miscellaneous writer; born at Sevenico in Dalmatia, Oct. 9, 1802; died at Florence, May 1, 1874. He wrote the novel "The Duke of Athens" (1837); "Commentary on Dante" (1837), a work of great merit; the half mystical, half erotic novel "Faith and Beauty" (1840); "Critical Studies" (1843); "The Death Penalty" (1865). He also compiled a valuable collection of "Popular Songs: Tuscan, Corsican, Illyrian, Greek" (4 vols., 1844), and a "Dictionary of Italian Synonyms" (7 vols., 1856).