[2] Giuseppe Albini was born on January 22, 1863, in Bologna.

[1][3] As a student of Giosuè Carducci, he taught Latin grammar and Greek at a young age and succeeded Giovanni Battista Gandino in the chair of Latin philology, which he held until his death.

[4] He wrote poetry in Italian and in Latin, edited editions of Persius, Dante, Giovanni del Virgilio; translated the complete works of Virgil including the Georgics in hendecasyllabic verse.

[1] He was a member of the Deputation of homeland history for Romagna, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Padua and of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti of Mantua.

Albini participated in the Certamen poeticum Hoeufftianum in Amsterdam, winning the gold medal in 1919 with the poem Vercingetorix and the great praise five times with Sponsa nautae (1882), Ad Vergilium (1885), Ad Bononiam (1888), Ravenna (1911) and Aeriae voces (1912).