Canti di Castelvecchio

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Canti di Castelvecchio is a collection of poems by Giovanni Pascoli, first published in its definitive edition in 1907. This work is considered by many to be Pascoli's best. The poems in this collection are described as moving evocations of his childhood and celebrations of nature and family life.1

Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) was an Italian classical scholar and poet whose work influenced the crepuscolari, or "twilight poets". His poetry is known for its graceful and melancholy tone, formal perfection, rhythmic style, and innovative wording. Pascoli experienced a difficult childhood marked by the assassination of his father and the deaths of several siblings.1

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…volume, usually considered his best, Canti di Castelvecchio (1903, definitive ed., 1907; “Songs of Castelvecchio”), a collection of moving evocations of his sad childhood and celebrations of nature and family life. Subsequent volumes include the classically inspired and more formal Poemi conviviali (1904) and two collections influenced by Virgil’s Georgics,…
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…volume, usually considered his best, Canti di Castelvecchio (1903, definitive ed., 1907; “Songs of Castelvecchio”), a collection of moving evocations of his sad childhood and celebrations of nature and family life. Subsequent volumes include the classically inspired and more formal Poemi conviviali (1904) and two collections influenced by Virgil’s Georgics,…
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Italian literature
The Risorgimento and after
…vein still found expression in Canti di Castelvecchio (1903; “Songs of Castelvecchio”) and in the classicism of Poemi conviviali (1904; “Convivial Poems”). Later he produced—both in humanistic Latin and in self-consciously elaborate Italian—heroic hymns in honour of two sacred cities, Rome and Turin.
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…vein still found expression in Canti di Castelvecchio (1903; “Songs of Castelvecchio”) and in the classicism of Poemi conviviali (1904; “Convivial Poems”). Later he produced—both in humanistic Latin and in self-consciously elaborate Italian—heroic hymns in honour of two sacred cities, Rome and Turin.
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