Who were Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s parents?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s parents were Gabriele Rossetti and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori.1

His father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar who fled to England as a political refugee in 1824 and later served as a professor of Italian at King’s College, London. His mother, Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, was the daughter of Gaetano Polidori, a Tuscan-born Italian teacher and man of letters who had settled in London. The couple married in 1826 and had four children, all of whom were born in London.1