Ugo Foscolo
Italian poet, novelist, and essayist associated with neoclassicism and early Romanticism; best known for the novel "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" and the poem "Dei Sepolcri," and for his involvement in patriotic and literary debates of his time.
Books
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1. I Sepolcri
A lyrical-medical meditation prompted by contemporary burial reforms, this long poetic essay argues that monuments and tombs are essential to preserve the memory of the dead, to console the living, and to nourish civic virtue and national identity; it intertwines classical allusion, personal exile and patriotic grief to claim that remembrance—kept alive by poets and public memorials—bestows immortality and sustains moral and political life.
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