Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Carducci (died 1907) was born in Valdicastello, in Versilia, on 27 July 1835, the son of Michele Carducci, a doctor who supported Italian unity. Trained at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, he taught at the University of Bologna from 1860 to 1904. At first a supporter of the monarchy, he moved to republicanism and to open anticlericalism, before rallying to the constitutional monarchy. A senator in 1890, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906, the first awarded to an Italian. He died in Bologna on 16 February 1907.

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