Yincenzo Monti, an Italian poet, born at Fusignano, near Ferrara, Feb. 19, 1754, died in Milan. Oct. 13, 1828. He was educated at Faenza and the university of Ferrara, where he read with enthusiasm the Latin and Italian poets, and before his 16th year published Latin elegies and an Italian poem on the prophecy of Jacob. The influence of Dante appears in his 'Vision of Ezekiel," written two years . later. His verses attracted the attention of Cardinal Borghese, who conducted him to Rome. In 177s he was appointed secretary to Braschi, nephew of Pope Pius VI. Assuming the clerical habit, he was called the abbate Monti though he never took orders. He became a member of the academy of Arcadians, with the principal members of which he was soon at war on account of his satires and impatience of criticism. In his drama Aristodemo he aimed to combine the vigor of Alfieri with gteater smoothness and elegance. A second Galentto Manfredi, in which he violates his own pnnnples of elassioality, proved a failure. In 1793 he was selected by the pontifical government to celebrate the assassination of the French ambassador Bassville in a poem conformed to their political views, and published in 15 days his Bassillianaa, which was the first effective expression of the horror of monarchi-cal and Catholic Europe at the French revo-lution. The first edition of his mythological poem Musogonia (1790) was agreeable to the papal government; but he made Bonaparte the hero of the second edition (1798), and also of a still finer poem entitled Prometeo. He was successively secretary of the directory of the Cisalpine republic and commissary in the Roinagna. He fled to France on the Austro-Russian invasion in 1799, but returned to Milan after the battle of Marengo, and published the tragedy of Caio Gracco. Appointed professor of belles-lettres in the college of Milan in 1803, he was immediately promoted to the chair of rhetoric in the university of Pavia. He celebrated in poems the leading events of Napoleon's career, and also made a translation of the Iliad, though he had studied Homer only through translators. , His most important prose production was a philological work, in which he assailed the principles of the Delia Oruscans. A complete edition of his works was published in 8 vols. (Bologna, 1825-8), a select edition in 5 vols. (Milan, 1832-4), and an edition in 6 vols. (Milan, 1839 et seq.).