Giosuè Carducci

1835–1907

Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) was an Italian poet, critic and teacher from Valdicastello in Tuscany, and the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1906. For over forty years he taught Italian literature at the University of Bologna.

A classicist and a fierce patriot, he wrote the provocative “Inno a Satana” (1863) and the collections Rime nuove and Odi barbare, in which he imitated the metres of Latin poetry in Italian. “Pianto antico”, written after the death of his young son, and “San Martino” are among the best-known poems in Italian.

Best-known poems

All poems (135)

A 3

C 2

D 1

F 1

I 2

N 1

O 5

P 1

Q 1

R 111

S 2

T 1

In English 2

In French 2

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