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331:), whom he qualifies as ânew sophists.â His role as a moralist of happiness conforms totally to the ideology of enlightened Lombard reformism, the protagonists of which were the ministers and functionaries of the Austrian government. Parini's work was accepted by younger poets mainly as a lesson in morality and freedom of thought.
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