Giuseppe Carlo Anrelio Bossi, baron de, an Italian poet and diplomatist, born in Turin, Nov. 15, 1758, died in Paris, Jan. 20, 1823. The son of a Sardinian count, he acquired the title of baron in the French service. He produced several plays in his youth, studied law, and after a short banishment in 1781 was employed in the foreign ministry and in diplomacy. He was Sardinian minister plenipotentiary in St. Petersburg in 1797, when Paul I. on hearing of the Sardinian-French treaty sent him his passports, after which he became very prominent as envoy to Napoleon, and finally, with Carlo Giulio and Carlo Botta, was one of the three administrators or triumvirs of Sardinia (called in France the three Charleses) during the unsettled period preceding the annexation to France. He joined the French service in 1805, and became prefect of the department of Ain, and afterward of La Manche. His devotion to the emperor during the hundred days caused him to be removed from office after the second restoration. It was mainly due to his influence that England, supported by Prussia, successfully interfered in Sardinia in behalf of the Waldenses. He was the first to give a dramatic fervor after the manner of Pindar to the Italian ode.

Among his lyrics, which have been collected in 3 volumes (Paris, 1799-1801; 2d ed., London, 1810), are L' Indipendensa americana (1785), La Olanda pacijicata (in two cantos, 1788), and Oromasia (on the French revolution, 12 cantos, 1805-'12).