Gioberti
VINCENZO (jō-ber'te), an Italian writer; born in Turin, April 5, 1801; was ordained priest in 1825, and ordained ned priest in 1825, and soon afterward was appointed court chaplain at Turin. He was banished in 1833 on account of his liberal tendencies, remaining a few years in France, and taught philosophy in a public school at Brussels. His first writings were philosophical, "The Theory of the Supernatural" (1837); the "Introduction of High Philosophical Research" (1840).
In 1842, "Philosophical Errors of Antonio Rosmini"; and next the treatises, "The Beautiful" and "The Good," on the principles, respectively, of taste and morals. In 1843 appeared the most celebrated of his works, "Moral and Civil Principles of the Italians." In 1848 Gioberti was recalled to his native country amid popular acclamation, and later, on being elected deputy for Turin, tool took an active part in all the great political questions, and finally became prime minister of Sardina. In 1849 he returned into voluntary exile, and spent his last years in Paris in writing his "The Civil Renovation of Italy." He died in Paris, Oct. 26, 1852.