PEROGLIO, Celestino. Palestro 20.4.1824 — Bologna 20.6.1909. Italian Historian and Geographer, interested in Indian Literature. Taught history and geography at technical school in Vercelli (founded by himself in 1854). In 1861-75 Professor of Geography at Turin. and finally at University of Bologna. A Garibaldian nationalist and a freemason (grand master of Grande Oriente d’Italia).

Publications: Del principio della nazionalità nella geografia politica: prolusione. Vālmīki, Jainadattabaddha [sic!], episodio del Rāmāyaṇa voltato in versi sciolti. Turin 1864.

– Several books not related to India.

Sources: Briefly Italian Wikipedia; atom.unito.it; book in Gli studi orientali in Italia 1861–1911.