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Luigi Monti

1830–1914

Italian author and lecturer. Educated in Palermo. Served in the revolutionary army, 1848–9; exiled, 1850. Instructor in Italian, Harvard, 1854–9. United States consul at Palermo, 1861–73. Lectured at the Lowell Institute, Wellesley, Vassar, and the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. Published works on Italian grammar and travel, as well as translations from Italian.

Sources

Appleton’s cyclopædia of American biography

NUC

Bibliography

Appleton’s cyclopædia of American biography. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton. 1887–9.

NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.

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