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Ferdinando Arrivabene (Mantua, 1770 - Mantua, June 29, 1834) was an Italian patriot, man of letters and poet.

Do not confuse him with Ferdinando Arrivabene (1824-1892), who was also a writer and member of the noble Arrivabene family and the author of the first Vocabolario Mantuan-Italian.

Biography
After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Padua, he joined the service of the Cisalpine Republic government. Under the Austrian empire, Ferdinando Arrivabene was arrested in 1800 on political charges and sent to prison in Šibenik, in Dalmatia. In prison, he wrote the song "The Tomb of Šibenik", which became widely recognized; in it, the poet expressed his outrage over his unjust imprisonment. The authorities soon reversed their decision, and Arrivabene was released.

In 1804, Ferdinando Arrivabene was appointed counselor to the Court of Appeals in Lyon. He was later transferred with a promotion to Brescia, where he held the role of president of the City Court for political offenses. Later, with the return of the Austrian government, which moved him to Bergamo, he left the service in 1821 and returned to his hometown to dedicate himself entirely to literary activity.

He wrote "The Century of Dante" (Udine, 1827) and "About Dante's Love Affairs" (Mantua, 1823). Moreover, the legal-philosophical treatise "On the Philanthropy of the Judge", which received an award from the Academy of Brescia.

During his collaborations with other colleagues in preparing an extensive essay titled "Iconography of Italy", he died suddenly, without having had the time to finish this work. .

Works
Judges' Banquet on the XXVI of May MDCCCVIII Anniversary of the coronation as King of Italy of His Majesty Napoleon I Emperor of the French, Brescia, Nicolò Bettoni, 1808
 * On the moral certainty in criminal judges (in Italian). Nicolò Bettoni. 1814.


 * On the Forensic Language, Bergamo, 1820
 * Love Poems of Dante Alighieri, 1823
 * The Century of Dante, Udine, 1827