• Il coraggio fu sempre dominatore dell’Universo perché tutto è debolezza e paura
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. . . Il mio ritratto
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Solcata ho la fronte, gli occhi incavati intenti,
crin canuto, emunte guance, ardito aspetto;
labbri tumidi, arguti, al riso lenti,
capo chino, torto il collo, irsuto petto;
membra esatte; vestir semplice eletto;
lenti i passi, ratto il pensier, gli accenti;
prodigo, sobrio, umano, ispido, schietto,
avverso al mondo, avversi a me gli eventi.
Mesto i miei giorni e solo; ogn’or pensoso;
alle speranze incredulo e al timor,
il pudor mi fà vile; e prode l’ira:
canta in me parla la ragion; ma il core,
ricco di vizi e di virtù, delira.
Morte, tu mi darai fama e riposo.
- Ugo Foscolo ( Il mio ritratto )
(1778 – 1827), poeta e scrittore italiano.
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. . . Ugo Foscolo, nato Niccolò Foscolo
(Zante, 06.02.1778 – Turnham Green, 10.09.1827), è stato un poeta, scrittore e traduttore italiano, uno dei principali letterati del neoclassicismo e del preromanticismo. Egli fu uno dei più notevoli esponenti letterari italiani del periodo a cavallo fra Settecento e Ottocento, nel quale si manifestano o cominciano ad apparire in Italia le correnti neoclassiche e romantiche, durante l’età napoleonica e la prima Restaurazione.
• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Foscolo
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LIBRI: https://it.wikibooks.org/wiki/Storia_della_letteratura_italiana/Ugo_Foscolo
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Ugo Foscolo (6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.
………….. Biography
Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo’s literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste–a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
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. . . Ugo Foscolo: What is Man?
• Courage was always the ruler of the Universe because everything is weakness and fear
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. . . My portrait
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I have furrowed brow, sunken eyes intent,
white horsehair, raised cheeks, bold appearance;
plump lips, witty, slow laughter,
bowed head, twisted neck, shaggy chest;
exact limbs; simple dress elected;
slow steps, I rat the thoughts, the accents;
prodigal, sober, human, bristly, straight,
adverse to the world, adverse events to me.
I melt my days and alone; each thoughtful;
to unbelieving hopes and fear,
modesty makes me vile; and fierce anger:
sings in me the reason speaks; but the core,
full of vices and virtues, he is delirious.
Death, you will give me fame and rest.
- Ugo Foscolo (My portrait)
(1778 – 1827), Italian poet and writer.
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