biography
pronunciation:
[kah(r)doochee]
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| lived:
| (1835–1907)
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| biography:
| Poet and literary critic, born in Val di Castello, Tuscany, NW Italy. At first a supporter of Mazzini, republican, and anti-Romantic, he later became a monarchist and the official poet of the new Italy. He obtained the Italian literature chair at Bologna University (1860), became a senator (1890), and was the first Italian to be awarded the Nobel prize (1906). His first collections of poems, Juvenilia (1850–60) and Levia gravia (1861–71) take inspiration from the classics, but his later work combines his usual patriotic themes with more intimate motifs, as in Rime nuove (1861–87), Odi barbare (1877–89), and Rime e ritmi (1887–99). |
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