Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe

Title

Prof

First name(s)

Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe

Surname

Rossetti

Position(s) held at King's College London ^Ref: *3

• Professor of Italian (1831-1847);
• teacher of Italian, King's College School

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended ^Ref: *2

School in Vasto; University of Naples 1804 (for one year)

Qualifications

LLB

Position(s) held (non King's College London) ^Ref: *1

• (1807 -?) librettist at the San Carlo Opera House, Naples;
• 1817 appointment to Chair of Rhetoric was withheld by King Ferdinand for political reasons;
• (? - 1821) Curator of Ancient Marbles and Bronzes, Capodimonte Museum, Naples;
• Secretary for Public Instruction and the Fine Arts, Naples

Publications ^Ref: *1

Several collections of poetry (1807); Odi Town(1820); God and Man (1833); The Seer Alone (1840); Commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy, London (two volume, 1825 and 1826); Disquisitions on the Antipapal Spirit Which Produced the Reformation, London (1831); The Mystery of the Platonic Love of the Middle Ages, derived from the Ancient Mysteries (1840); La Beatrice di Dante, London (1842)

Personal details

Date of birth ^Ref: *1

28th February 1783

Place of birth ^Ref: *1

Vasto, Italy

Date of death

24th April 1854

Place of death

London

Obituary

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/6th-may-1854/11/obituary-gabriele-rossetti

Family details ^{Refs: *1 *4}

Married Frances Polidori in 1826; children, Maria Francesca Rossetti (born 17th February 1827); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (born 12th May 1828); William Michael Rossetti (born 25th September 1829); Christina Georgina Rossetti (born 5th December 1830)

Notes ^{Refs: *2 *4}

Napoleon Bonaparte 'assumed the Imperial crown' in Naples and Rossetti met him and later other members of his family. Exiled from Italy for political reasons in 1821, having lived in hiding for several months. Fled to Malta and then to England, aided by Admiral Sir Graham Moore and his wife who had read his poetry. Buried in Highgate Western Cemetery in family grave.