biography
pronunciation:
[foskoloh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1778–1827)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Zákinthos, Greece. He studied at Spalato and Venice, and his disappointment when Napoleon ceded Venice to Austria found vent in the Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis). After a period in the French army, he returned to Milan, and published his best poem, Dei sepolcri (1807, Of the Sepulchres). His work shows two directions, the romantic-autobiographical and the neoclassic-decorative. After 1814 he sought refuge in London, where he supported himself by teaching and writing, but his last years were embittered by poverty and neglect. |
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