Ugo Foscolo

Niccolò Ugo Foscolo
Painting of Foscolo: he has curly red hair, side burns, light eyes and skin
Painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1813
Born(1778-02-06)6 February 1778
Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now Greece
Died10 September 1827(1827-09-10) (aged 49)
Turnham Green, London, England
Resting placeSanta Croce, Florence
Pen nameDidimo Chierico
OccupationPoet, writer, soldier
LanguageItalian
NationalityVenetian-Greek
CitizenshipVenetian (1778–1799), Italian (until 1814), British (1814–1827)
Period1796–1827
GenresLyrical poetry, epistolary novel, literary critic
Literary movementNeoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism
Partners
  • 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)
ChildrenMary "Floriana" Hamilton-Foscolo (from Fanny Hamilton)
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Ugo Foscolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo ([nikkoˈlɔ ˈfoskolo]), was a Greek-Italian poet, writer, playwright, and revolutionary.

Foscolo was a Neoclassicist, Pre-Romantic author.

Early life

Foscolo was born on 6 February 1778 in Zakynthos (Zante), Republic of Venice (now Greece), from the Venetian doctor Andrea Foscolo and the Greek Diamantina Spathis. His birth name was "Niccolò", just like his paternal grandfather's (his father's father), but he wanted to be called "Ugo" instead.

Works

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)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.
  2. ↑ "Ugo Foscolo". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 March 2024. Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.

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