Giulio Perticari (15 August 1779 – 26 June 1822) was an Italian

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Biography

Giulio Perticari was born in

Savignano sul Rubicone Savignano sul Rubicone ( rgn, Savgnèn) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southeast of Forlì. The comune takes its name from the Ru ...

, a small town about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of

Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via E ...

. He was the eldest son of a noble family from

Pesaro Pesaro () is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, ...

. At the age of ten he was sent to the provincial college of

Fano Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by popula ...

, and in 1801 he moved to

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, where he studied

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, and

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. Perticari was one of the defenders of the neoclassicists, against the new-fangled romantics. In 1812, he married Costanza Monti, and became a close literary associate of her father, the poet Vincenzo Monti. In the dispute about the Italian language, he became Monti's chief supporter against purism. Perticari's ''Degli scrittori del Trecento e de' loro imitatori'' (1818) and ''Dell'amor patrio di Dante e del suo libro intorno al Volgare Eloquio'' (1820) maintain that the language of every other century has equal claims with that of the fourteenth to be regarded as the true Italian. In 1819, he founded the

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''Giornale Arcadico'', of which he was a regular contributor. Perticari died on 26 June 1822 in

San Costanzo San Costanzo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche, located about northwest of Ancona and about southeast of Pesaro. Geography The municipality of San Costanzo contains three ''frazioni'' ...

Works

* ''Degli scrittori del Trecento e de' loro imitatori'', 1818; * ''Dell'amor patrio di Dante e del suo libro intorno al Volgare Eloquio'', 1820.

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* * * * * {{Authority control Italian poets Italian essayists 1779 births 1822 deaths People from Savignano sul Rubicone People from the Papal States