Download or read book Carducci Essentials: the Poems of Giosuè Carducci Translated in English written by Alessandro Baruffi and published by LiteraryJoint Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated in English, with original text in Italian. Giosuè Carducci, (born July 27, 1835, Val di Castello, near Lucca, Tuscany [now Italy]—died Feb. 16, 1907, Bologna, Italy), Italian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, and one of the most influential literary figures of his age. The son of a republican country doctor, Carducci spent his childhood in the wild Maremma region of southern Tuscany. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1860 became professor of Italian literature at Bologna, where he lectured for more than 40 years. He was made a senator for life in 1890 and was revered by the Italians as a national poet.