Carlo Imbonati was an Italian

Italy

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 nobleman and highbrow

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. He is known above all for the several poems which were dedicated to him by the famous literates Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy...

 and, particularly, Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature...

. Born in a prestigious and wealthy family from the Milanese

Milan

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 nobility

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, from 1763 he was instructed by Parini

Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy...

, who dedicated to him the ode

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 L'Educazione in occasion of his eleventh birthday. In 1792 Imbonati began a relationship with Giulia Beccaria, mother of the young Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature...

. After his death, the poet will write for him the juvenile work In morte di Carlo Imbonati, which will be published in 1806.