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pronunciation:
[paskohleeh]
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| (1855–1912)
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| Poet, born in San Mauro di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. At a very young age he suffered a series of bereavements which marked him forever. He was a student of Carducci at Bologna University and flirted with socialism, but later adopted nationalistic positions. He taught Greek and Latin (1902–5) and in 1906 succeeded Carducci to the chair of Italian literature at Bologna, which he held until 1911. In his work, which includes Myricae (1891), Primi poemetti (1897), Canti di Castelvecchio (1903), Poemi conviviali (1904), Odi e inni (1906), and Nuovi poemetti (1909), he deals with the modern existentialist crisis, adopting decadentist and symbolist themes (Il fanciullino, 1897) rather than Carducci's classicism. He also introduced a structural revolution, drawing on spoken language. He was hugely influential on the Italian poets who followed, and on the crepuscolarismo movement. In Poemi italici (1911) and Poemi del Risorgimento (1913, unfinished), he moves away from individual themes and attempts a patriotic type of poetry. |
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