Vittorio Barzoni (1767-1843), from Lonato del Garda, was among Italy’s leading anti-Napoleonic polemicists. Trained in law at the University of Padua, he soon turned to writing. His Hermit of the Alps (1794) and Romans in Greece (1797) gained wide circulation and were translated into several languages. Exiled in Vienna and Malta, he collaborated with British journals and met Coleridge. In later years he published Romantic prose, including the Shipwreck of the Earl of Abergavenny (1833).