Cyprian Norwid

Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), born in Laskowo-Głuchy, near Warsaw, lost his parents early and was raised by his grandmother. Having left for Italy in 1842, he studied painting and sculpture there. In Berlin, in 1846, he refused to act as an informer for the Russian embassy and was thrown into prison, from which he emerged half deaf. He lived in Rome, then in Paris, tried his luck in the United States from 1853 to 1854 and returned to Paris, where he lived in poverty. He died of tuberculosis at the Saint-Casimir asylum, on the outskirts of Paris, on 23 May 1883.

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• PoetryVade-mecumCyprian Norwid · 1953not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain