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Denina was born at Revello, Piedmont, in 1731.
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Carlo Giovanni Maria Denina
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Carlo was educated at Saluzzo and Turin. In 1756 he graduated as doctor in theology.
Career
In 1753 Denina was appointed to the chair of humanity at Pignerol, but he was soon compelled by the influence of the Jesuits to retire from it. After getting his degree in theology he began authorship with a theological treatise.
Promoted to the professorship of humanity and rhetoric in the college of Turin, he published (1769-1772) his Delle revoluzioni d’Italia. Collegiate honours accompanied the issue of its successive volumes, which, however, at the same time multiplied his foes and stimulated their hatred.
In 1782, at Frederick the Great’s invitation, he went to Berlin, where he remained for many years, in the course of which he published his Vie et règne de Frédéric II (Berlin, 1788) and La Prusse littéraire sous Frédéric II (3 vols. , Berlin, 1790-1791). His Delle revoluzioni della Germania was published at Florence in 1804, in which year he went to Paris as the imperial librarian, on the invitation of Napoleon. At Paris he published in 1805 his Tableau de la Haute Italie, et des Alpes qui l’entourent.
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