Carlo Porta

Carlo Porta (died 1821) was born in Milan on 15 June 1775. He entered the finance administration in 1804 and spent his whole career there, under Austria and then under Napoleon, rising to the rank of chief cashier. He wrote poems in the Milanese dialect that combine a portrait of the common people with anticlerical satire. From 1816 he gathered a circle of friends at his home every week, the Cameretta, which Alessandro Manzoni, Tommaso Grossi and Giovanni Berchet attended. He died in Milan on 5 January 1821.

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• PoetryLa Ninetta del VerzeeCarlo Porta · 1814not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain