Giosuè Carducci

Thomas E. Peterson (University of Georgia)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 27 Jul 1835
Died 16 Feb 1907
Activity 1855-1907

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler
Poet

Resources

As the major Italian poet of the final third of the nineteenth century, Giosuè Carducci represented the contradictions of his age. A celebrator in verse of the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy, he demonstrated a vigorous public commitment to the sacred ideal of the homeland. Known as “the last shield bearer of the classics”, Carducci advocated a restoration of the classical heritage and a return to the civic and natural virtues it represents. At the same time he authored a sentimental, melancholy body of verse and was radically innovative in his technical and metrical experimentation, deviating from established meters and verse forms. Fiercely anti-clerical in a country in which the Catholic Church long exercised political …

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Citation: Peterson, Thomas E.. "Giosuè Carducci". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 31 May 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=733, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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