ROSSI, 'PELLEGRINO, was b. of a noble family at Carrara in 1787. He carried on his studies at the university of Bologna. In 1812, being 25 years of age, he was appointed professor of law in that university. In 1815, king Murat having proclaimed Italian independence, Rossi sided with him. On the fall of Murat, Rossi was exiled. lie took refuge at Geneva, where he was appointed professor of the science of law. There lie published Le Droit Penal, a very learned work, which made him famous in France. In 1833 Louis-Philippe called him to Paris, and appointed him professor of political econ omy. Then Rossi commenced the course Du limit Constitutionnel, and the government, in order to reward the great publicist, naturalized him, and made him a member of the chamber of peers. Protected by Guizot, the prime-minister, Rossi was sent to Rome as ambassador in 1845. There he witnessed all the events of 1848 and took part in them, having again become an Italian subject after the fall of Louis-Philippe. When called to
the ministry by Pius IX., Rossi wished to oppose the party favorable to the house of Savoy, and devised an alliance with the king of Naples, which had for its object a con Italian princes with the pope as their president. This roused the hatred of the Romans, and Rossi was stabbed by an unknown hand on Nov. 15, 1848. In 1860 Luigi Carlo Farini decreed the publication of all the writings of Rossi, and that a bust of him should be given to the university of Bologna, where it was inaugurated with great solemnity on April 27, 1S62. Besides the Draft Penal, Rossi published the Ours d' liconomie Politique (1840); 'the Lettere (Fun Dilettante Politico salt' Allemagna, sulk Francia, e sail' Italia (Florence, 1848); and left many inedited writings, which, after his death, were published in Paris at the expense of the Italian government.