Involtro, a delightful Italian poet, was the younger son of a patrician family, and was born at Verona in 1753. A course of education at Este and Modena, and a tour through Europe, fostered and matured his literary taste. A severe illness, which unfit him for public life, was the occasion of bringing his accomplishments into exercise. Retiring to a country house in the neighbourhood of Verona, he spent his quiet days in the congenial labour of poetical composition. He translated from his favourite classical poets, recorded the solemn thoughts which sprung up amid the stillness of solitude, and descanted upon the news which came at intervals from the distant world. His Versi appeared in 1784, his Volgarizzamento dell'Inno a Cerere scoperto ultimamente e attribuito ad Omero in 1785, his Saggio di Poesie Campestri in 1788, his Poesie in 1798, his Arminio Tragedia in 1804, and his Epistle in Versi in 1805. He had but recently published a prose work, entitled Elogi di Letterati, when he died in 1828. A collection of Pinde monte's works appeared in 8 vols., Milan, 1829.