Luigi Monti

Luigi Monti, instructor of Italian at Harvard University and United States Consul to Italy; Monti came to the US as a refugee during the Italian revolution of 1848-1849, and worked as an instructor of Italian at Harvard from 1854-1859. With some help from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he secured an appointment as the U.S. consul in Olermo, where he served from 1861 until 1873.

Christoph Irmscher. Public Poet, Private Man...(Boston, 2009), p. 51; http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17884