Mario Rapisardi

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Mario Rapisardi

Mario Rapisardi (born February 25, 1844 in Catania ; † January 4, 1912 there ) was an Italian poet .

life and work

Mario Rapisardi was employed first at the lyceum, then at the university in his hometown as a professor of Italian literature. He was unhappily married to Giselda Foianesi; and she left him because she loved Giovanni Verga . This emotional personal experience left clear traces in his literary work as did his love affairs with two other women. He waged a stormy controversy with Giosuè Carducci , the cause of which was based on an allusion by Rapisardi in his epic Lucifero . Rapisardo emerged as a loser from this conflict, which only increased his sense of loneliness.

Rapisardi made a name for himself primarily as a philosophical and reflective poet. His two main works in this direction are La Palingenesi (Florence 1868, 3rd edition 1878) and Lucifero (Milan 1877, 3rd edition 1880). The first of these historical-philosophical epics traces the phases of the development of human life, as the milestones of which the poet paganism , the cross, the dispute between the popes and the emperors, the crusades , Luther , the enslavement of peoples and war, the revolutions, Italy and Pius IX and sets the future. In Lucifero , after a short introduction that encompasses prehistoric times and is held in mythical form, he deals with modern peoples' life, in particular with the great Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the latest fate of Italy.

Other works

  • Manfred , verse drama
  • Ricordanze , poems, 1872; 3rd ed. 1881
  • Catullo e Lesbia , Studies, 1875
  • Giustizia , poems, 1883; 5th edition 1899
  • Giobbe , Trilogy, 1884
  • Poetry Religious , Poems, 1887
  • Elegy , poems, 1889
  • Empedocle ed altri versi , poems, 1892
  • Atlantide , poem 1894
  • L'asceta ed altri poemetti , poems, 1904
  • Selected poems . With a foreword and comments by Carlo Sambucco. Heidelberg 1914.

Rapisardi also provided translations of Catullus , Horace and Lucretius and published a selection of his poems ( Versi scelti e riveduti , Milan 1888). An edition of his Opere ordinate e corrette appeared in six volumes (Catania 1894–97).

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SURNAME Rapisardi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1912
Place of death Catania