Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian poet, writer, playwright and revolutionary.[1][2]

Niccolò Ugo Foscolo
Painting of Foscolo: he has curly red hair, side burns, light eyes and skin
Painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1813
Born(1778-02-06)6 February 1778
Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now Greece
Died10 September 1827(1827-09-10) (aged 49)
Turnham Green, London, England
Resting placeSanta Croce, Florence
Pen nameDidimo Chierico
OccupationPoet, writer, soldier
LanguageItalian
NationalityVenetian-Greek
CitizenshipVenetian (1778–1799), Italian (until 1814), British (1814–1827)
Period1796–1827
GenresLyrical poetry, epistolary novel, literary critic
Literary movementNeoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism
Partners
  • Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1795–1796)
  • Isabella Roncioni (1800–1801)
  • Antonietta Fagnani Arese (1801–1803)
  • Fanny "Sophia" Emerytt-Hamilton (1804–1805)
  • Quirina Mocenni Magiotti (1812–1813)
ChildrenMary "Floriana" Hamilton-Foscolo (from Fanny Hamilton)

Signature

Foscolo was a Neoclassicist, Pre-Romantic author.[1]

Early life

Foscolo was born on 6 February 1778 in Zakynthos, Republic of Venice (now Greece), from the Venetian doctor Andrea Foscolo and the Greek Diamantina Spathis.[1] His birth name was "Niccolò", just like his paternal grandfather's (the father of his father), but he wanted to be called "Ugo" instead.[1]

Works

Poetry

  • Ai novelli repubblicani, ode (1797)
  • A Bonaparte liberatore [To Bonaparte the liberator], ode (1797)
  • A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo [To Luigia Pallavicini fallen from a horse], ode (1800)
  • All'amica risanata [To the healed (female) friend], ode (1802)
  • Non son chi fui, perì di noi gran parte, sonnet (1802)
  • Che stai?, sonnet (1802)
  • Te nudrice alle Muse, sonnet (1802)
  • E tu ne' carmi avrai perenne vita, sonnet (1802)
  • Perché taccia il rumor di mia catena, sonnet (1802)
  • Così gl'interi giorni in lungo incerto, sonnet (1802)
  • Meritamente, però ch'io potei, sonnet (1802)
  • Solcata ho fronte, sonnet (1802)
  • Alla sera [To the night (evening)], sonnet (1803)
  • A Zacinto [To Zakinthos], sonnet (1803)
  • Alla Musa [To the Muse], sonnet (1803)
  • In morte del fratello Giovanni [In death of brother John], sonnet (1803)
  • Dei Sepolcri [Of the Sepulchres], carmen (1807)
  • Delle Grazie [Of the Graces], short poem (1803–1827, unfinished)

Novels

  • Sesto tomo dell'io (1799–1801)
  • Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis [The last letters of Jacopo Ortis] (1802)

Plays

  • Tieste [Thyestes] (1797)
  • Ajace [Ajax] (1811)
  • Ricciarda (1813)

Ugo Foscolo Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Scotti, Mario (1997). "FOSCOLO, Ugo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 49: Forino–Francesco da Serino (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 5 July 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. "Ugo Foscolo". Encyclopædia Britannica. (4 March 2024). 

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