Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian poet, writer, playwright and revolutionary.[1][2]
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Niccolò Ugo Foscolo |
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Born | (1778-02-06)6 February 1778 Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now Greece |
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Died | 10 September 1827(1827-09-10) (aged 49) Turnham Green, London, England |
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Resting place | Santa Croce, Florence |
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Pen name | Didimo Chierico |
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Occupation | Poet, writer, soldier |
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Language | Italian |
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Nationality | Venetian-Greek |
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Citizenship | Venetian (1778–1799), Italian (until 1814), British (1814–1827) |
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Period | 1796–1827 |
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Genres | Lyrical poetry, epistolary novel, literary critic |
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Literary movement | Neoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism |
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- Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1795–1796)
- Isabella Roncioni (1800–1801)
- Antonietta Fagnani Arese (1801–1803)
- Fanny "Sophia" Emerytt-Hamilton (1804–1805)
- Quirina Mocenni Magiotti (1812–1813)
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Children | Mary "Floriana" Hamilton-Foscolo (from Fanny Hamilton) |
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Signature | ![Thumb](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/FirmaFoscolo.png/160px-FirmaFoscolo.png) |
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Foscolo was a Neoclassicist, Pre-Romantic author.[1]
Foscolo was born on 6 February 1778 in Zakynthos, Republic of Venice (now Greece), from the Venetian doctor Andrea Foscolo and the Greek Diamantina Spathis.[1] His birth name was "Niccolò", just like his paternal grandfather's (the father of his father), but he wanted to be called "Ugo" instead.[1]
Poetry
- Ai novelli repubblicani, ode (1797)
- A Bonaparte liberatore [To Bonaparte the liberator], ode (1797)
- A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo [To Luigia Pallavicini fallen from a horse], ode (1800)
- All'amica risanata [To the healed (female) friend], ode (1802)
- Non son chi fui, perì di noi gran parte, sonnet (1802)
- Che stai?, sonnet (1802)
- Te nudrice alle Muse, sonnet (1802)
- E tu ne' carmi avrai perenne vita, sonnet (1802)
- Perché taccia il rumor di mia catena, sonnet (1802)
- Così gl'interi giorni in lungo incerto, sonnet (1802)
- Meritamente, però ch'io potei, sonnet (1802)
- Solcata ho fronte, sonnet (1802)
- Alla sera [To the night (evening)], sonnet (1803)
- A Zacinto [To Zakinthos], sonnet (1803)
- Alla Musa [To the Muse], sonnet (1803)
- In morte del fratello Giovanni [In death of brother John], sonnet (1803)
- Dei Sepolcri [Of the Sepulchres], carmen (1807)
- Delle Grazie [Of the Graces], short poem (1803–1827, unfinished)
Novels
- Sesto tomo dell'io (1799–1801)
- Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis [The last letters of Jacopo Ortis] (1802)
Plays
- Tieste [Thyestes] (1797)
- Ajace [Ajax] (1811)
- Ricciarda (1813)
Scotti, Mario (1997). "FOSCOLO, Ugo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 49: Forino–Francesco da Serino (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
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