FOSCOLO, UGO

ooˈgō fôsˈkōlō, 1778–1827, Italian poet and patriot. His name was originally Niccolò 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. Upon Napoleon's defeat and the annexation of Venice to Austria, Foscolo exiled himself to London, where at first he had great social success. Having spent his earnings, he was forced to give lessons and write articles and for several years before his death lived in extreme poverty. His novel, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1798–1802, tr. 1818), an account of his political disillusionment, exerted a strong influence on Italian letters, as did also his critical essays, translations, and lyric poems, especially Sepulchres (1807).

See study by G. Cambon (1980).

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The Fall of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1814)
Book by R. John Rath; Columbia University Press, 1941
Subjects: Italy--History--1789-1815
...quoted source. Fasso Luigi edit. , Ugo Foscolo; prose politiche e letterarie...Edizione nazionale delle opere di Ugo Foscolo . Monnier, Firenze, 1933. Fiorani...revolution, to his friend Gallotta. Foscolo Ugo, " Epistolario ". Opere complete...
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Italian Nationalism and English Letters: Figures of the Risorgimento and Victorian Men of Letters
Book by Harry W. Rudman; Columbia University Press, 1940
Subjects: Authors, English, Cavour, Camillo Benso--Conte Di--1810-1861, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Garibaldi, Giuseppe--1807-1882, Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Italians--England--London, Mazzini, Giuseppe--1805-1872, Political Refugees
...Filippo, both men of letters, who introduced him to Foscolo. Ugo Foscolo, telling Panizzi not to remain in London, gave him...was Francis Haywood, the translator of Kant. Again Foscolo proved to be of service to Panizzi by enabling him...
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The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites
Book by Wiley Feinstein; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Antisemitism--Italy, Fascism And Culture--Italy, Italy--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Italy--Politics And Government--1922-1945
...Julius. Il mito del sangue. Milan: Hoepli, 1937. Foscolo, Ugo. Ultime lettere di Iacopo Ortis. Milan: Garzanti, 1973. Foscolo, Ugo. Dei Sepolcri. Verses 151 97 reprinted in Lingua...
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Inferno III
Book by Maria Picchio Simonelli, Patrick Creagh, Robert Hollander, Dante Alighieri; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Dante Alighieri--1265-1321--Inferno--Canto 3, Poetry
...Magnanimitade: Studi su un tema dantesco . Bologna, 1977. Foscolo, Ugo. La Commedia di Dante Alighieri illustrata da Ugo Foscolo. Vol. 2. London, 1842. Freccero John. "Dante and...
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British Romanticism and Italian Literature: Translating, Reviewing, Rewriting
Book by Laura Bandiera, Diego Saglia; Rodopi, 2005
Subjects: English Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Italian Influences, Italian Literature--Appreciation--Great Britain, Italian Literature--Study And Teaching--Great Britain, Italian Literature--Translations Into English--History And Criticism, Romanticism--Great Britain
15,218 8 Foscari Jacopo 22, 209-14, 218 Foscolo, Giulio 230 Foscolo, Ugo 14, 16-17, 22, 27, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 48, 120, 138, 161, 174, 193, 197-202, 203, 222...
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L' "Ajace" Di Foscolo Fra Azione E Inazione: Ovvero IL Rifiuto Della Storia
Journal article by Andrea Ciccarelli; Symposium, Vol. 49, 1995
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...1986. 38-57. Binni, Walter. "L"Ajace del Foscolo". Ugo Foscolo. Storia e poesia. Torino: Einaudi, 1982. 146...Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1988. 294-312. Foscolo. Ugo. Il sesto tomo dellio. Ed. Vincenzo Di Benedetto...
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Ugo Foscolo's Europe: a Journey from the Sublime to Romantic Humor
Journal article by Gustavo Costa; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...334. On this incident, see U. Foscolo, Epistolario , VII, ed. M...Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Ugo Foscolo , XX: 208, note I and passim...Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Ugo Foscolo 8: 105. 31. Foscolo, Prose...
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From Gray's Elegy to Foscolo's Carme: Highlighting the Mediation and Sublimation of the 'sepulchral'
Journal article by Antonio Illiano; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...Edizione Nazionale deue Opere di Ugo Foscolo , I. See also Foscolos restatement...composizione dei "Sepolcri" di Ugo Foscolo (Firenze: Olschki, 1977...contributions by E. R. Vincent, Ugo Foscolo: An Italian in Regency England...
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".Avaro Seme Di Donna": Patrizia Cavalli's Transgressive Discourse
Journal article by Robert J. Rodini; The Romanic Review, Vol. 89, 1998
Subjects: Cavalli, Patrizia--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Italian poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lyric poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Self in literature--Analysis
...and waning, it has been suggested, with the poetry of Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827).(19) The "I" regains its focus...translation of the title), notes that he "... reads in Foscolo the beginnings of a poetically fruitful dissolution of...
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Schiller and the Political Sublime: Two Perspectives
Journal article by Charles H. Hinnant; Criticism, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sublime, The--Political aspects, Terror
...Romanticism (New York: Harper Row, 1979), 38-50. (23.) Ugo Foscolos tragic protagonist Jacopo Ortis describes "sublime...tyranny nor fate, the masters of all, can ever master," Ugo Foscolo, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1802), trans. Dale...
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magazine articles on: Foscolo Ugo  - 3 results

 
 
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Napoleon - the Myth
Magazine article by A.D. Harvey; History Today, Vol. 48, January 1998
Subjects: Emperors--Influence, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Influence
...established itself following Waterloo. The Venetian writer Ugo Foscolo described Napoleon in 1814 as, `incorrigibly a tyrant...charlatan even when he was omnipotent in strength. Yet even Foscolo had hoped that his actions might open the way if not...
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Radical Light: Italy's Divisionist Painters: Lucy Riall Explores the Social and Political Issues in Italy Following the Country's Unification. She Shows How These Issues Became the Focus for a Dynamic New Artistic Movement of the 1890s, Divisionism, a Forerunner to Futurism and the Subject of a Current Exhibition at the National Gallery
Magazine article by Lucy Riall; History Today, Vol. 58, August 2008
Subjects: Art, Italian--Exhibitions, Art, Italian--Social aspects, Futurism (Literary movement)--Political aspects, Futurism (Literary movement)--Social aspects, Italian art--Exhibitions, Italian art--Social aspects
...Italian-ness) seems undeniable. Many historians now argue that it is in culture, for example in the poetry of Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), and in Italian painting from Francesco Hayez (1791...
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The Gems of Florence
Magazine article by Martin Gani; World and I, Vol. 13, September 1998
Subjects: Art, Florence, Italy, Italy--Description and travel
...houses the tombs of Ghiberti, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo, the musician Rossini, and the literary giant Ugo Foscolo, to name a few. Inside the church, I noticed a group gazing intently at a monument dedicated to Dante Alighieri...


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Queen of the Castles; Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet and Sting Are among the Glitterati Allowed through the Gates of Secret Villas Found by Italy's Best-Connected Countess
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 15, 2005
...superrich, where privacy and discretion are all, that is just as it should be. Countess Simonetta Brandolini dAdda, Via Ugo Foscolo 72, 50124 Florence, Italy (00 39 055 223064; email thebestinitaly@ thebestinitaly.com).


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encyclopedia articles on: Foscolo Ugo  - 3 results

 
 
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Foscolo, Ugo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FOSCOLO, UGO oo go fos kolo, 1778 1827, Italian poet...patriot. His name was originally Niccolo Foscolo. A devoted Venetian, he pinned his hope...and the annexation of Venice to Austria, Foscolo exiled himself to London, where at first...
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Italian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...period was both classical and romantic. The poetry of Vincenzo Monti typifies the first direction, and the work of Ugo Foscolo belongs to the second. A distinguishing feature of Italian romanticism was its political involvement in the struggle...
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Risorgimento
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...literature of this period, especially the novels of Alessandro Manzoni and the marchese d Azeglio and the poetry of Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi , did much to stimulate Italian nationalism. The Risorgimento was primarily a movement of the...


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