Cesare Taparelli d'Azeglio

Cesare Taparelli, marchese d'Azeglio (10 February 1763 –26 November 1830),[1] was an Italian soldier, monarchist and writer, a leading figure of the Catholic counter-Enlightenment in Piedmont-Sardinia.

He wrote for the first Catholic journal in Italy, L'Ape.

Alessandro Manzoni addressed his letter Sul romanticismo [it] to him.

In 1788, he married Cristina Morozzo di Bianzè, with whom he had three sons who survived to adulthood: Roberto, Luigi and Massimo.

Taparelli died in Genoa, where had accompanied his ailing wife.