Giuseppe Giusti, an Italian poet, born at Monsummano, in Tuscany, in May, 1809, died in Florence, March 31, 1850. He graduated as an advocate at the university of Pisa, and entered the law office of the future minister of justice, Capoquadri. But on account of a delicate constitution and disappointment in love, he abandoned the practice of his profession. He was in full sympathy with Manzoni, D'Aze-glio, and other opponents of Austrian domination in Italy, and his poem Il Dies Irae, on the death of the emperor Francis I. in 1835, attracted considerable attention. As a champion of moderate liberalism he was twice elected in 1848 to the Tuscan chamber of deputies; but after spending the summer of 1849 at the springs of Viareggio, he ended his life in the Florentine palace of his devoted friend Cap-poni. Though published anonymously, his writings had acquired a wide popularity all over Italy, when the appearance of a spurious edition in 1845 impelled him to have one prepared in his own name. But the most authentic and complete edition was published after his death, under the title of Versi editi ed inediti (Florence, 1852).