Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo ([nikkoˈlɔ ˈfoskolo]), was a Greek-Italian poet, writer, playwright, and revolutionary.^[1][2]

Niccolò Ugo Foscolo
Painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1813
Born	(1778-02-06)6 February 1778 Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now Greece
Died	10 September 1827(1827-09-10) (aged 49) Turnham Green, London, England
Resting place	Santa Croce, Florence
Pen name	Didimo Chierico
Occupation	Poet, writer, soldier
Language	Italian
Nationality	Venetian-Greek
Citizenship	Venetian (1778–1799), Italian (until 1814), British (1814–1827)
Period	1796–1827
Genres	Lyrical poetry, epistolary novel, literary critic
Literary movement	Neoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism
Partners	Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1795–1796) Isabella Roncioni (1800–1801) Antonietta Fagnani Arese (1801–1803) Fanny "Sophia" Emerytt-Hamilton (1804–1805) Quirina Mocenni Magiotti (1812–1813)
Children	Mary "Floriana" Hamilton-Foscolo (from Fanny Hamilton)
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Foscolo was a Neoclassicist, Pre-Romantic author.^[1]

Early life

Foscolo was born on 6 February 1778 in Zakynthos (Zante), Republic of Venice (now Greece), from the Venetian doctor Andrea Foscolo and the Greek Diamantina Spathis.^[1] His birth name was "Niccolò", just like his paternal grandfather's (his father's father), but he wanted to be called "Ugo" instead.^[1]

Works

Poetry

• Ai novelli repubblicani, ode (1797)
• A Bonaparte liberatore [To Bonaparte the liberator], ode (1797)
• A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo [To Luigia Pallavicini fallen from a horse], ode (1800)
• All'amica risanata [To the healed (female) friend], ode (1802)
• Non son chi fui, perì di noi gran parte, sonnet (1802)
• Che stai?, sonnet (1802)
• Te nudrice alle Muse, sonnet (1802)
• E tu ne' carmi avrai perenne vita, sonnet (1802)
• Perché taccia il rumor di mia catena, sonnet (1802)
• Così gl'interi giorni in lungo incerto, sonnet (1802)
• Meritamente, però ch'io potei, sonnet (1802)
• Solcata ho fronte, sonnet (1802)
• Alla sera [To the night (evening)], sonnet (1803)
• A Zacinto [To Zakinthos], sonnet (1803)
• Alla Musa [To the Muse], sonnet (1803)
• In morte del fratello Giovanni [In death of brother John], sonnet (1803)
• Dei Sepolcri [Of the Sepulchres], carmen (1807)
• Delle Grazie [Of the Graces], short poem (1803–1827, unfinished)

Novels

• Sesto tomo dell'io (1799–1801)
• Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis [The last letters of Jacopo Ortis] (1802)

Plays

• Tieste [Thyestes] (1797)
• Ajace [Ajax] (1811)
• Ricciarda (1813)