poets mainly as a lesson in morality and freedom of thought. Ugo Foscolo, who met Parini in Milan, portrayed him as a serious, dignified person in Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and criticized the rich and corrupt town which had forgotten him, in Dei sepolcri. He died in August 1799 in Milan. A statue of the poet occupies a place of honour in Milan's busy Piazzale Cordusio. His family still survives, with Katrine Cereda-Parini being the youngest known relative to continue the name to this day. Libretto Ascanio in Alba, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1771) Publications Giuseppe Parini (trans. Herbert Morris Bower). The Day Morning, Midday, Evening, Night : a Poem. Westport, Conn: Hyperion Press, 1978. References External links 1729 births 1799 deaths People from the Province of Lecco Italian Roman Catholics 18th-century Italian poets Italian male poets Italian satirists Western Lombard language Italian male non-fiction writers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's librettists 18th-century non-fiction writers 18th-century Italian male writers