Other InformationItalian writer from Bientina (Pisa). He was the son of physician and poet Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–78). He served as secretary to the tragedian Vittorio Alfieri from 1785 to 1789. In 1790 emigrated to London where he found employment as teacher of Italian. He was the maternal grandfather of poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Other InformationItalian writer from Bientina (Pisa). He was the son of physician and poet Agostino Ansano Polidori (1714–78). He served as secretary to the tragedian Vittorio Alfieri from 1785 to 1789. In 1790 emigrated to London where he found employment as teacher of Italian. He was the maternal grandfather of poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.