Pietro Berti (1741–1813) was an Italian jesuit and professor of rhetoric. Born in

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, he entered the Jesuit order and taught rhetoric at

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colleges in

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and

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. In Reggio, the count Agostino Paradisi sponsored Berti for the Accademia degli Ipochondriaco. He returned to Venice where he was in demand for his erudition and knowledge of precious books. Among his writings are ''Funeral Oration for the Doge

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'' (1779, in Latin). He also wrote ''Orazione per il solenne ingresso di sua excellenzia Pietro Mocenigo, Cavalieri e Procuratore di San Marco'' (1780). Esopo (

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) vulgarizzato per uno da Siena, testo di lingua (1811). His disciples published a poem posthumously, titled ''La Pesca di Commacchio, Stanze'' (1819).Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); page 283.

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