BORGHI, GIUSEPPE. - Man of letters and teacher of rhetoric, b. at Bibbiena on 4 May 1790, d. at Rome on 30 May 1847. A priest, he later became assistant librarian at the Riccardiana in Florence and there belonged to the Vieusseux Circle.
He wrote verses, commentaries on Dante and Petrarca, and a work, unfinished and somewhat tedious, on Italian History from the first year of the Christian era to 1840. His translation of the Odes of Pindar, first published in 1824 and revised in 1827, was, on the other hand, appreciated, and earned him the prize of the Accademia della Crusca. He also wrote 24 Sacred Hymns, celebrating the Trinity, the virtues, and the Eucharist.
BIBL.: G. Fraccaroli, Sulla traduzione di Pindaro di G. B., Palermo 1875: C. Calderone, Il B. in Sicilia, ibid. 1886: B. Croce, in Storia della storiografia italiana nel sec. XIX, I, Bari 1921, pp. 95-96: N. Vaccalluzzo, in Saggi e documenti di letter. e storia, Catania 1924, pp. 124-44: M. Cordovani, G. B., Arezzo 1925.