Carlo Rosmini (29 October 1758 – 9 June 1827) was an Italian historian, mainly of biographies.

Biography

He was born to a noble and wealthy family of Roveredo. His brother was a prominent Catholic theologian Antonio Rosmini (Rosmini-Serbate). In Roveredo, he was close to members of the scholarly Vannetti family, including Clementino. He studied at the Collegium Nobilum of Insbruck. By 1783, with Vanetti, using pseudonyms, he had published a pamphlet of secular verses. This was followed by further essays, including biographies of Ovid (1789) and Seneca (1796). Further essays and biographies of Vittorino da Feltre and Giovanni Battista Guarino followed. After the incorporation of Roveredo into the Napoleonic kingdom of Italy, he moved to Milan. In Milan he wrote biographies of

Francesco Filelfo Francesco Filelfo (; 25 July 1398 – 31 July 1481) was an Italian Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist and author of the philosophic dialogue ''On Exile''. Biography Filelfo was born at Tolentino, in the March of Ancona. He is believed t ...

(1808) and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1815). In 1820, he published the start of a ''History of Milan''
''Dell'Istoria di Milano''
; this project would occupy him for the next few decades.Nuova Enciclopedia Popolare Italiana ovvero Dizionario Generale
5th edition, Volume 20, Turin (1864); page 123.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosmini Carlo 1758 births 1827 deaths Writers from Milan 19th-century Italian historians 19th-century Italian male writers