DENINA, CARLO GIOVANNI MARIA Italian historian, was born at Revello, Piedmont, in 1731, and was educated at Saluzzo and Turin. He was professor of human ity and rhetoric in the college of Turin. His most important work is DeIle revoluzioni d'Italia (1769-72). In 1782, at Frederick the Great's invitation, he went to Berlin, where he published his Vie et regne de Frederic II. (1788) and La Prusse litteraire sous Frederic II. (3 vols., i79o-91). His DeIle revoluzioni della Ger mania was published at Florence in 18o4; in the same year he went to Paris as the imperial librarian, on the invitation of Napoleon. He died in Paris on Dec. 5,1813.