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Canti di Castelvecchio

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In Giovanni Pascoli
…volume, usually considered his best, Canti di Castelvecchio (1903, definitive ed., 1907; “Songs of Castelvecchio”), a collection of moving evocations of his sad childhood and celebrations of nature and family life. Subsequent volumes include the classically inspired and more formal Poemi conviviali (1904) and two collections influenced by Virgil’s Georgics,…
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Italian literature

In Italian literature: The Risorgimento and after
…vein still found expression in Canti di Castelvecchio (1903; “Songs of Castelvecchio”) and in the classicism of Poemi conviviali (1904; “Convivial Poems”). Later he produced—both in humanistic Latin and in self-consciously elaborate Italian—heroic hymns in honour of two sacred cities, Rome and Turin.
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