Giovan Battista Corniani ( Italian: Giovan Battista Corniani ; February 18, 1742 , Ordzinovovi - November 13, 1813 , Brescia ) - Italian lawyer , playwright and historian of literature.
He studied mathematics and law in Milan . He published a monograph “On legislation on agriculture” ( Italian: Della legislazione relativamente all'agricoltura ; 1777 ) and a number of other works on the theoretical foundations of agricultural production, was a consultant to Italian and Latin translations of the Napoleonic Codex . Author of the tragedies Decemvirate ( Italian: Il decemvirato ) and Darius in Babylon ( Italian: Dario in Babilonia ), the comedies Marriage of Fashion ( Italian: Matrimonio alla moda ) and Happy Cheating ( Italian: L'inganno felice ) The fame of Korniani is based on his main work - historical and literary: “Centuries of Italian literature” ( Italian: I secoli della letteratura italiana ; Brescia, 1804 - 1813 ).