| Giosue Carducci: 19th Century Poet, Statesman, and Satanist (3187 words) |
 | By the time he won the Nobel, Carducci had firmly established himself as one of the worlds most well-known and influential literary figures with a large body of distinguished work and a long career of artistic achievement, political activism and religious agitation. |
| Carducci, the firebrand masonic freethinker and revolutionary, wrote Inno a Satana in September 1863, at the age of 28 and three years into his teaching chair at the University of Bologna. |
| Carducci himself in recent times has rejected the entire poem and has called it a vulgar sing-song. Thus, there is no reason to dwell any longer on a poem which the poet himself has disavowed. |
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