Giovanni Pascoli
Italian poet and classical scholar (1855-1912)
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- Antologica
- Myricae
- Sotto il Velame
- Pensieri e Discorsi
- Odi e Inni
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1855-12-31 ) 31 December 1855, San Mauro Pascoli , Papal States
- Died
- 6 April 1912 (1912-04-06) (aged 56), Bologna , Italy
- Resting place
- Castelvecchio di Barga
- Occupation
- Poet, scholar.
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Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli ( Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpaskoli]; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the greatest Italian decadent poets.
The first publication of "Il Fanciullino" in 1897 reveals an intimate and introspective understanding of poetic sentiment. It emphasizes the importance of the particular and the everyday, while also evoking a childlike, almost primal dimension. According to Pascoli, only the poet can articulate the 'childishness' inherent in everyone. This notion enables him to assume the somewhat anachronistic role of a poet-vate and to reaffirm poetry's moral (particularly its consolatory) and civic value.
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