Giosuè Carducci (July 27, 1835 – February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the unofficial national poet of modern Italy. July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Italian Republic or Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. ...

He was born in Val di Castello, a small town in the northwest corner of Tuscany near Pisa. His father, a doctor, was an advocate of the unification of Italy. Because of his politics, the family was forced to move several times during Giosuè's childhood, eventually settling for a few years in Florence. Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Pisas coat of arms. ... Florence - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

From the time he was in college, he was fascinated with the restrained style of Greek and Roman antiquity, and his mature work reflects a restrained classical style. He translated Book 9 of Homer's Iliad into Italian. For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Iliad is, with The Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. ...

He received his Ph.D. in 1856 from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and began teaching school. The following year, he published his first collection of pems, Rime. These were difficult years for Carducci; his father died, and his brother committed suicide. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1859, he married Elvira Menicucci, and they had four children. He briefly taught Greek at a high school in Pistoia, and then was appointed Italian professor at the university in Bologna. He was a popular lecturer and a fierce critic. His political views were mercurial and alternated between pro- and anti-republicanism. Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ...

He was the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906. Although his reputation rests primarily on his poetry, he also produced a large body of prose works. The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

He died near Lucca.

External Links

Nobel Prize Biography page (http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1906/carducci-bio.html)