Niccolò Tommaseo

Nikola Tomazeo (Niccolò Tommaseo) is regarded as part of both the Italian and Serbian literary corpus according to critic Jovan Skerlić who included him in his Istorja nove srpske književnosti (1914).

[4] A friend of Antonio Rosmini, of Vincenzo Monti and of Alessandro Manzoni, in 1825 he met in Florence in the Gabinetto Vieusseux Giacomo Leopardi, but their friendship deteriorated after a short time.

[5] In the novel Faith and Beauty (Fede e bellezza, 1840) he describes his love relationship in an oscillation between moralism and eroticism which pushed Manzoni to accuse him of being a public Catholic sinner.

During his years in Paris he published the political work Dell'Italia (1835), the volume of verses, Confessioni (1836), the historical fiction Il Duca di Atene[6] (1837), a commentary on the Divine Comedy[7] (1837), and his Memorie Poetiche (1838).

In Corfù, with his eyesight failing, he nevertheless managed to write numerous essays, among which, in Rome et le monde[9] (written in French), he declared, as a good Catholic, the necessity of the Church's relinquishing temporal power in the Papal States.