Cesare Taparelli d'Azeglio
Cesare Taparelli, marchese d'Azeglio (10 February 1763 –26 November 1830),[1] was an Italian soldier, monarchist and writer, a leading figure of the Catholic counter-Enlightenment in Piedmont-Sardinia. He wrote for the first Catholic journal in Italy, L'Ape. Alessandro Manzoni addressed his letter Sul romanticismo to him.[2]
Taparelli was born in Turin to Roberto Taparelli, conte di Lagnasco, and Giustina Genolla. In 1774, he joined the Royal Sardinian Army. In 1784, he experienced a religious turn. In 1788, he married Cristina Morozzo di Bianzè, with whom he had three sons who survived to adulthood: Roberto, Luigi and Massimo. All their other children died young. Taparelli died in Genoa, where had accompanied his ailing wife.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Verucci 1962.
- ^ Millar 2002.
Bibliography
[edit]- Verucci, Guido (1962). "Azeglio, Cesare Taparelli marchese di". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 4: Arconati–Bacaredda (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Millar, Eileen Anne (2002). "D'Azeglio, Cesare Taparelli". In Peter Hainsworth; David Robey (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press.