Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1906
Nobel Co-recipient Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Name: Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci
Birth: 27 July 1835, Val di Castello, Tuscany (now Italy)
Death: 16 February 1907, Bologna, Italy
Residence at the time of the award: Italy
Prize motivation: “not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces”
Field: poetry
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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony Banquet was held on December 10, 1906. C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, delivered his Presentation Speech in Italian. He spoke about the poet, Giosuè Carducci [age 71 yrs], who, due to illness was unable to travel to Stockholm to attend the ceremony to receive the award.
Mr. Caprara, the Italian chargé d’Affaires, expressed his gratitude in French. He addressed his speech to the country of Alfred Nobel and promised to convey the homage to the poet, Giosuè Carducci.