Giosuè Carducci
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Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he
Carducci c. 1900
![Giosuè Carducci (seated) with his friends Giuseppe Torquato Gargani [it] and Giuseppe Chiarini [it], c. 1855](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Amicipedanti.jpg/500px-Amicipedanti.jpg)
Giosuè Carducci (seated) with his friends Giuseppe Torquato Gargani [it] and Giuseppe Chiarini [it], c. 1855
Caricature of Giusuè Carducci by Augusto Majani: the poet's head is at the top of the tree trunk with beard blended into the trunk and hair blended into the tree limbs. Several titles of his works are inscribed on limbs. Two people stand together, beneath the crown of the tree, stretching to touch or grasp the lowest branches
The library of Casa Carducci
Pietrasanta
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Pietrasanta is a town and comune on the coast of northern Tuscany in Italy, in the province of Lucca. Pietrasanta is part of Versilia, on the last foothills of the Apuan Alps, about 32 kilometres nort
Giosuè Carducci
…the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces." Giosuè Carducci was born in Valdicastello in Pietrasanta, a small town currently part of the Province of Lucca in the northwest corner of Tuscany, which at the time was an independent grand duchy. His father…
Cathedral square with the church of Sant'Agostino in the background.
Main square of Pietrasanta.