Pietro Bachi
{{Short description|Italian academician (1787 – 1853)}}
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| name = Pietro Bachi
| image = PietroBachi byAlbertGallatinHoit Harvard.png
| alt =
| caption = Portrait of Pietro Bachi, work of Albert Gallatin Hoit, Harvard University Portrait Collection.
| birth_name = Ignazio Batolo
| birth_date = 1787
| birth_place = Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily
| death_date = 22 August 1853 (aged 66)
| death_place = Boston, United States
| nationality = Sicilian/American
| other_names =
| occupation = academic and professor
| known_for = first professor from Italy teaching at Harvard University
}}
Ignazio Batolo, commonly known as Pietro Bachi, (1787, in Palermo – 22 August 1853, in Boston) was a Sicilian American academic and professor. He was the first professor from Italy teaching at Harvard University.
In 1815, he was involved in an attempt aimed at promoting the claim of Joachim Murat to the throne of the Two Sicilies. As a result of this attempt against the House of Bourbon he was forced to change his name with the alias of Pietro Bachi and escape to England and then to the United States.
In 1826, he became professor of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese language at Harvard University and kept this assignment until 1846. He died in Boston in 1853.
Biography
Pietro Bachi was born in Palermo in 1787 under the name of Ignazio Batolo to Salvatore Batolo,{{Cite book|author=Così dice lo stesso Pietro Bachi in|title=Teatro scelto Italiano|url=https://archive.org/details/teatrosceltoita00bachgoog|publisher=Hilliard & Brown}} an important magistrate who served as Procuratore Generale del Re at the Grand Civil Court of Palermo and Judge of the Supreme Court of Sicily, of Messina origin.La famiglia Batolo è originaria di Ficarra (Me) e Gioiosa Marea (Me), dove a testimonianza degli antichi fasti rimangono i loro nobili palazzi. Following in his father's footsteps, he studied law at the University of Padua and practiced law for a time.
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External links
- [https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/323704 Portrait of Pietro Bachi], Harvard Art Museums.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=iEkuAAAAYAAJ Pietro Bachi, A Grammar of the Italian Language].
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zaA3AAAAYAAJ Pietro Bachi, A Comparative View of the Spanish and Portuguese Languages].
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Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people
Category:Immigrants to the United States
Category:American people of Italian descent
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