Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Carducci (pseudonym: Enotrio Romano, born July 27, 1835 in Valdicastello, today Pietrasanta, Tuscany, † February 16, 1907 in Bologna ) was an Italian poet, orator and historian of literature.

Life

Giosuè Carducci was the son of a country doctor, his father had been imprisoned as a member of the patriotic secret society of the Carbonari. This event made Carducci lifelong Republican.

Carducci grew up in the Pisan Maremma, already stimulated the deep and peculiar nature impressions the child to poetic attempts. His later youth he spent in Florence, where his father had moved. Very early on he was also interested in the works of ancient Greek and Roman authors.

Carducci studied philology at the University of Pisa and received his PhD in Doctor of Philosophy. From 1856 to 1857 he worked as a teacher of rhetoric in San Miniato, near Pisa. Due to his atheist views his application was rejected for a professorship of Greek at Arezzo. In 1860 he became professor of Greek at Pistoia, in 1861 professor of Italian literature in Bologna, he had this position until 1903.

Carducci in 1862 a member of the Masonic Lodge " Galvani " and co-founder of the lodge " Felsinea " in Bologna, later affiliated to the lodge " Propaganda Massonica ".

1890 Carducci, who at that time enjoyed as a political poet and outstanding orator considerable reputation, was appointed to the Senate. Since 1887 he was a corresponding member, 1897 nazionale socio of the Accademia dei Lincei. Since 1886 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence.

Carducci in 1906 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The following year, Giosuè Carducci died and was buried at the Cimitero Monumental della Certosa in Bologna.

Development of his style

Carducci had come out with little literary work in magazines early on, likewise with a lyrical collection: Rime (San Miniato 1857). Strong the character of the poet came to the other collections: Levia gravia ( new ed, Pistoia 1868) and I Decennali, expressed. Here he reveals himself as a poet of uncommon boldness and originality of thought. Sensational success but had a small, 1863 -written anthem: Inno a Satana, which he had in 1865 under the pseudonym given above print as a kind of pamphlet for distribution to friends.

The negative mind that rebellione that ragione forza della vindice is it with resounding power of language as the driving force of human life and world history, as the genius of spiritual independence and boundlessness, celebrated as the principle of all progress. The overall picture of the brilliant poet give the poetry Enotrio di Romano ( Flor. 1871), a collection, which also includes the previously appearing is united, and the Nuove poesie ( Imola 1873, 4th edition, Bologna, 1881) and more recently Giambi ed epodi (ibid. 1882) followed. His preference for the ancient Roman past, encouraged him to renew the Horace Odenstrophen barbare in his Odi ( 3rd edition, Bologna, 1880) and Nuove odi barbare (ibid. 1882).

A German selection of his poems has as Jacobsott can appear with an introduction by K. Hillebrand ( Leipz. 1880). A village in Tuscany between Pisa and Rome is called after him Castagneto Carducci, Province of Livorno.

Fame

In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain work of freethinkers and reconnaissance Ludovico Settembrini tells the main character, Hans Castorp, he had an obituary for German newspapers wrote to his teacher Carducci after his death, so he could have increased its notoriety in Germany.

Works

• Rime 1857
• Juvenilia 1857
• Inno a Satana 1865
• Levia Gravia 1868
• Studi letterati 1874
• Bozzetti critici e discorsi Letterari 1876
• Odi Barbare 1877 (German Odi Barbare 1913)
• Miramare 1878
• Giambi ed epodi 1882
• Ça ira 1883 ( German Ça ira. Twelve sonnets 1893)
• Selected Poems 1880