Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century.
14 Facts About Giovanni Pascoli
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Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna 67 as Ruggero Pascoli was returning home from the market at Cesena in a carriage drawn by a black and white mare, he was shot and killed by an assassin hiding in a ditch by the road.
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Giovanni Pascoli lived next to his sisters Ida and Maria, in an attempt to renew the original family, building a "nest" for the sisters and himself.
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In 1894 Giovanni Pascoli was called to Rome to work for the Ministry of Public Instruction, and there he published the first version of Poemi conviviali.
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When Carducci retired, Giovanni Pascoli replaced him as professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna.
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In 1912, already ill of cirrhosis, Giovanni Pascoli died of liver cancer at the age of 56 in Bologna.
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In 2002 was found Giovanni Pascoli's autographed Masonic will, in the shape of a triangle.
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However, even in that period of Positivism and scientism, Giovanni Pascoli believed that life is a mystery; only symbolic associations discovered in the humble things of nature can lead man to catch a glimpse of the truth behind mere appearances.
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Giovanni Pascoli abandoned the previous era's grandiose language and rhetoric, including that of his mentor Giosue Carducci, for poetry that was simple and inspired by day-to-day life and objects.
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Giovanni Pascoli wrote in both Italian and Latin; he translated English poetry.
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In 1897 Giovanni Pascoli issued a detailed definition of his poetical stance, which he called poetica del fanciullino and which showed the influence of Sully and von Hartmann.
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Poetry, according to Giovanni Pascoli, would be the unceasing capability to get stunned by the world, typical of childhood, secondarily connected to the expressive capabilities of the aged.
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Volumes of Pascoli's work in English include Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, translated by Richard Jackson, Deborah Brown, and Susan Thomas ; Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, translated by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston, and Last Dream, translated by Geoffrey Brock.
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Giovanni Pascoli was known as a prose essayist and for his Dante studies.