Note 165 — BOOK VII[145]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), born at Fusignano, near Ravenna, author of the Bassevilliana(1793), directed against the French Revolution, and a number of other poems, tragedies and translations. Monti was Historiographer to the Court of Italy under Napoleon and a member of the Italian Institute.—T.