Dionigi Strocchi

Dionigi Strocchi (6 January 1762, Faenza - 15 April 1850, Ravenna[1]) was an Italian educator, writer, classical scholar and translator.

[2] He then returned to his birthplace at the end of the 18th century to support the Cisalpine Republic and its successor the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, gaining important jobs in both administrations;.

[3][4] He was a friend of Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo, Paolo Costa, Giovanni Paradisi and Ennio Quirino Visconti and established the neoclassical literary school in Faenza.

When the Napoleonic regime fell he returned to the Papal States, taking refuge in San Marino and briefly imprisoned in Bologna.

[2] He did not oppose the Restoration and composed a hymn in honour pope Pius IX and his election in 1846.

Strocchi on the frontispiece of the Faenza edition of his Poesie greche e latine volgarizzate
Louis I of Bavaria , whose poems were translated by Dionigi Strocchi