Guido Mazzoni (poet)

Guido Mazzoni (born June 12, 1859 in Florence ; † May 29, 1943 ibid) was an Italian poet and literary scholar . His poems belong to the classical romanticism ( it. Romanticheggiò classicamente) of Italian poetry from the end of the 19th century.

Life

Mazzoni studied literature, from 1875 first in Pisa and then in Bologna with the later Nobel Prize winner Giosuè Carducci . In 1887 he became a professor of Italian literature at the University of Padua and was then from 1894 until his retirement in May 1934 professor at the University of Florence .

In 1910 Mazzoni was appointed Senator (Senatore del Regno) by the King of Italy .

During the First World War , Mazzoni volunteered for the front in 1915 after his son had become a prisoner of war with the Austrians. First as a lieutenant, later as a captain, he served with distinction in the Italian mountain troops, which was not only noticed because of his age of almost 60 when the war ended.

In 1927 Mazzoni became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

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Mazzoni published several volumes of poetry among them

• Versi (Livorno 1880)
• Poetry (Bologna 1881).
• Nuove poetry (1886)
• Voci della vita (Rome 1893).
• Poetry (Bologna 1913)

Mazzoni also wrote numerous textbooks, academic works on Italian literature and articles in magazines. Among his works are Il Teatro Della Rivoluzione (Theater of the Revolution 1894), textbooks on Greek (1896) and Latin literature (1889), works on Dante's Divina Commedia (1897) and many other literary reviews, including the work of his teacher Carducci (1901) and other poets (e.g. Avviamento allo studio critico delle lettere italiane, Florence 1923).

Mazzoni was above all an expert on Dante's literature . He also published a two-volume literary history of Italy (Storia letteraria d'Italia, Milan 2nd edition 1934). Many experts still consider it to be an important contribution to the processing of the literary history of Italy.

estate

Mazzoni's estate was acquired by Duke University in the United States in 1948 , which, while studying Italian literature and history, contributed to the understanding of 19th-century culture and its transition to the modern age of the 20th through the detailed analysis of Mazzoni's work and life Century sees.

literature

• Mazzoni, Guido. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 72:  Massimino-Mechetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2009.
• Mazzoni, Guido . In: H. Chisholm (Ed.): Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition). Cambridge 1911
• G. Prezzolini: Onoranze a Guido Mazzoni . In: Leonardo 8/1907, pp. 286-287
• G. Capovilla: Giosuè Carducci . In: A. Balduino (Ed.): Storia Letteraria d'Italia - L'Ottocento (Volume 3). Milan, Padua 1997, pp. 1909ff.

Web links

• Entry in the Senatori dell'Italia liberale database of the Historical Archives of the Italian Senate