Poems of Italy: selections from the Odes

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (1835 – 1907) was a famous Italian poet and teacher regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. Having received the Novel Prize in Literature in 1906 became the highest figure in Italian literature due to his freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces.

The life of Giosue Carducci, the foremost of living Italian poets, spans an epic period. He could observe all stages of becoming new era in Italy by means of Napoleon and it would hardly be possible for any man of strong feeling and quick imagination to have lived through such a struggle and Alessandor Carducci made a brilliant work of poems referring to the great country of his own.  Love of his state, anxious to independency and sovereignty is one of the most considerable motives, full of energy and courage lies in the “Poems of Italy”. Start your acquaintance with a brilliant author of Apennine Peninsula.