Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1906
Nobel Co-recipient Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
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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
Poet, Senator. Wrote poetry as child. Excellent translator, literary historian, orator. Conducted research in every phase of literature and eloquently expressed his findings. Poetry inspired compatriots in war for Italian independence, enjoyed immense popularity at home and abroad. Greatest Italian literary figure in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
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Photo: R. Borghi. Source: Wikipedia. 1870