GIAN CARLO, an Italian satirical poet, was born in the county of Nizza in 1713, and entered into holy orders. His career presents a rare instance of a good-natured contempt for the gifts of fortune. He was still young when he resigned the office of chaplain to the papal nuncio at Cologne, and retired to a humble cellar in Milan to enjoy solitude and practise austerity. A cock was his only companion, and a threadbare suit and a few mean articles of furniture were his only riches. His door was closed against all donations, and all offers of place and position. He sat down at his humble table to write his II Cicerone, a satirical poem which railed at fortune and society in easy and unaffected language, and in a strain of pleasant and decorous banter. The fame which this work gained for him did not affect his humility. A pension which the Cisalpine Republic bestowed on him did not alter his abstemious habits. He continued to cultivate frugality in his lonely cellar till he died in 1802, at the age of eighty-nine. Besides his II Cicerone, which was published in 6 vols., Milan, 1768, Passeroni wrote Translations of Several Greek Epigrams, Milan, 1786-94; and Ethiopian Fables, in 6 vols., Milan, 1786.