Pascoli, Giovanni

Pascoli, Giovanni

▪ Italian poet
born Dec. 31, 1855, San Mauro di Romagna, Kingdom of Sardinia
died April 6, 1912, Bologna, Italy

      Italian classical scholar and poet whose graceful and melancholy Italian lyric poems, perfect in form, rhythmic in style, and innovative in wording, were an important influence on the crepuscolari (crepuscolarismo) (“twilight poets”; see crepuscolarismo).

      Pascoli had an extremely painful childhood: his father was mysteriously assassinated when he was 12, his mother died when he was 13, and five other children in the family died by the time he reached adulthood. He also experienced a long period of psychological duress while studying on a scholarship at the University of Bologna under the great poet Giosuè Carducci. Pascoli was arrested and imprisoned for a few months in 1879 for preaching political anarchy. Following his imprisonment he took his younger siblings to live with him, and from 1882 began a career of teaching, first in secondary schools and then in various Italian universities, as professor of Greek, Latin, and Italian literature. In 1905 he was appointed to the chair of Italian literature at the University of Bologna.

      Pascoli's first literary work, a great success, was Myricae (1891; “Tamarisks”), a volume of short, delicate, musical lyrics inspired by nature and domestic themes and reflecting the psychological unrest of his student years. Some easing of inner turmoil is apparent in his next volume, usually considered his best, Canti di Castelvecchio (1903, definitive ed., 1907; “Songs of Castelvecchio”), a collection of moving evocations of his sad childhood and celebrations of nature and family life. Subsequent volumes include the classically inspired and more formal Poemi conviviali (1904) and two collections influenced by Virgil's Georgics, Carducci's work, and the French Symbolists: Primi poemetti (1904, originally published as Poemetti, 1897) and Nuovi poemetti (1909). Pascoli's Latin poems won poetry prizes and exhibited a fluent skill; Gabriele D'Annunzio considered him the finest Latin poet since the Augustan age. During his later years Pascoli wrote several nationalistic and historic poetic works, notably Poemi del Risorgimento (1913). English translations of his poems were published in 1923 and 1927. He also translated poems of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Tennyson. An Italian literary award, the Pascoli Prize, was established in 1962 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death, and his birthplace was named San Mauro Pascoli.

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