Vittorio Barzoni

Vittorio Barzoni (17 December 1767 - 22 April 1843) was an Italian author, mainly of anti-Napoleonic tracts during the French occupation of Northern Italy.

His father was a mushroom merchant, and afforded Vittorio early education in his town, and later in a college of Verona, but finally at the University of Padua.

Inspired by the new political ideas promulgated by the French Revolution, he moved to Venice and published his first work in 1794: Il solitario delle Alpi.

[1] He soon published a tract: Rapporto sullo stato attuale degli stati liberi d'Italia e sulla necessità che siano fusi in una sola Repubblica, in which he challenged the pretensions of Napoleon to be a liberator of Venice or Italy.

[2][3] By 1801, he was forced to abandon Venice for Vienna, but soon also expelled from there by French pressure, and moved to Malta in 1804 where he published various anti-French journals (L'Argo and Il Cartaginese).