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Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian writer, revolutionary and poet. He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem Dei Sepolcri.
Mar 4, 2024 · Ugo Foscolo (born February 6 [January 26, Greek calendar], 1778, Zacynthus, Venetian republic [now Zákinthos, Greece]—died September 10, 1827, Turnham Green, near London, England) was a poet and novelist whose works articulate the feelings of many Italians during the turbulent epoch of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the restorat...
Jun 27, 2018 · The Italian author Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) was a poet, critic, and dramatist as well as a patriot. His romantic temperament and flamboyant life characterize his role as a key transitional figure in Italian literary history. Born Niccolò Foscolo on the Greek island of Zante on Feb. 6, 1778, he soon adopted the pseudonym Ugo.
Ugo Foscolo, nato Niccolò Foscolo (Zante, 6 febbraio 1778 – Londra, 10 settembre 1827), è stato un poeta, scrittore, drammaturgo, traduttore e critico letterario italiano, uno dei principali letterati del neoclassicismo e del preromanticismo.
Ugo Foscolo was born January 26 1778, at Zante in the Ionian Isles. He was an Italian poet and patriot. His name was originally Niccolo Foscolo. A devoted Venetian, he pinned his hope of a restored republic on Napoleon and fought under him against the Austrians, even after Napoleon's political untrustworthiness had become evident.
Before the breaking of the storm, dark threatening clouds, heavy with thunder, pile up on the horizon; when the storm is over, the clear and rarefied atmosphere, and the earth made fruitful by...
"Alla Sera" is widely considered the most beautiful of the 4 major (on a total of 12 sonnets) sonnets by Ugo Foscolo. The silence of the evening, when all life is asleep, suggests to the poet the image of death to which he longs, as if this only could bring him to peace.
