Paolo Costa (poet)

Paolo Costa (13 June 1771, Ravenna – 20 December 1836, Bologna[1]) was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher.

[2] The son of Domenico Costa and Lucrezia Ricciarelli, he began his studies in 1780 in Ravenna under modest teachers.

His studies were interrupted by the French invasion and occupation in 1797, during which he held government roles in both Ravenna and Bologna.

[4] He resumed his studies under Giordano Bianchi Dottula, Dionigi Strocchi and Pietro Giordani and became chair in philosophy at the lyceum in Treviso during the Kingdom of Italy.

However, the lyceum was suppressed on the Restoration and from 1822 to 1831 he was a private tutor in a villa in Bologna.