Giuseppe Carpani, an Italian dramatist and writer on music, born at Villalbese, near Milan, Jan. 28, 1752, died in Vienna, Jan. 22, 1825. Educated for the law, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and produced a great number of plays and operas, partly translations and partly original. In 1792 he was editor of the Gazzetta di Milano, and wrote violent articles against the French revolution. He was obliged to leave the city after the invasion of the French, and went to Vienna, where he was appointed censor and director of the theatre. In 1809 he accompanied the archduke John in the expedition against Napoleon.

Under the title of Haydine, he published a series of curious and interesting letters on the; life and works of Haydn the composer. These letters, published in a French translation as! an original work, under the name of L. A. C. Bombet, by Beyle (Stendhal), gave rise to a great literary controversy, in which Carpani successfully vindicated his authorship.