Aleardi, Aleardo, but originally Gartano, an Italian poet, born at Verona, November 4, 1812.  He studied law at Padua, and in 1848 was actively engaged in the revolutionary cause.  He afterwards entered the Italian Parliament, and was professor of aesthetics at the art-school of Brescia.  He published several volumes of verse, besides political writings.  Died at Verona, July 17, 1878. (The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature, Ridpath, v.1, 1898).