The paper aims at studying some features of contents and language peculiarities of a few known text belonging to Italian 19th century literature, Davide Bertolotti's Ode (“Alla Maestà di Alessandro I. Imperatore di tutte le Russie”). The Ode was dedicated to Alexander's victory on Napoléon and constitutes an important document related to the history of Italian-Russian and more widely Russian-European relationship. We try to understand whether Ode's language reflects real language facts or represents some kind of artificial stylisation.