Giosuè Carducci



Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Il Parlamento (1879)

 * Il sole / ridea calando dietro il Resegone
 * The sun laughed as it set behind the Resegone

Inno a Satana

 * To thee of All Being     /A te, de l’essere
 * The First Cause immense  /Principio immenso,
 * Of matter and spirit,    /Materia e spirito,
 * Of reason and sense      /Ragione e senso;
 * Whilst in the full goblet /Mentre ne’ calici
 * Shall sparkle the wine,  /Il vin scintilla
 * So bright the pupil      /Si’come l’anima
 * The souls of men shine,  /Ne la pupilla
 * Whilst earth still is smiling, /Mentre sorridono
 * And the sun smiles above,     /La terra e il sole
 * And men are exchanging        /E si ricambiano
 * Their sweet words of love,    /D’amor parole
 * Thrills mystic of Hymen       /E corre un fremito
 * Through high mountains course, /D’imene arcano
 * And broad plains are heaving  /Da’ monti e palpita
 * With life's fertile force,    /Fecondo il piano;
 * On thee in verse daring,      /A te disfrenasi
 * From tight rein released,     /Il verso ardito,
 * On thee I call, Satan,        /Te invoco, o Satana
 * The King of the feast.        /Re del convito
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)
 * From tight rein released,     /Il verso ardito,
 * On thee I call, Satan,        /Te invoco, o Satana
 * The King of the feast.        /Re del convito
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)