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Niccolò Tommaseo (1802–1874)
Tommaseo, Niccolò (tō-mä’sē-ō). An Italian miscellaneous writer; born at Sevenico in Dalmatia, Oct. 9, 1802; died at Florence, May 1, 1874. He wrote the novel ‘The Duke of Athens’ (1837); ‘Commentary on Dante’ (1837), a work of great merit; the half-mystical, half-erotic novel ‘Faith and Beauty’ (1840); ‘Critical Studies’ (1843); ‘The Death Penalty’ (1865). He also compiled a valuable collection of ‘Popular Songs: Tuscan, Corsican, Illyrian, Greek’ (4 vols., 1844), and a ‘Dictionary of Italian Synonyms’ (7 vols., 1856).