Ignazio Batolo, commonly known as Pietro Bachi, (1787, in Palermo – 22 August 1853, in

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) was a

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academic and professor. He was the first professor from

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teaching at

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. In 1815, he was involved in an attempt aimed at promoting the claim of

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also , ; it, Gioacchino Murati; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the ...

to the throne of the

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. As a result of this attempt against the House of Bourbon he was forced to change his name with the alias of Pietro Bachi and escape to

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and then to the

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. In 1826, he became professor of

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and

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language at

and kept this assignment until 1846. He died in Boston in 1853.

External links

Portrait of Pietro Bachi
Harvard Art Museums.
Pietro Bachi, ''A Grammar of the Italian Language''

Pietro Bachi, ''A Comparative View of the Spanish and Portuguese Languages''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bachi, Pietro Harvard University faculty Italian emigrants Immigrants to the United States American people of Italian descent Writers from Palermo 1787 births 1853 deaths