Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo (; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo (), was a Greek-Italian poet, writer, playwright, and revolutionary.

Foscolo was a Neoclassicist, Pre-Romantic author.

 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. His birth name was "Niccolò", just like his paternal grandfather's (his father's father), but he wanted to be called "Ugo" instead.

 Works 
 Poetry 
 , ode (1797)
  [To Bonaparte the liberator], ode (1797)
  [To Luigia Pallavicini fallen from a horse], ode (1800)
  [To the healed (female) friend], ode (1802)
 , sonnet (1802)
 , sonnet (1802)
 , sonnet (1802)
 , sonnet (1802)
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  [To the night (evening)], sonnet (1803)
  [To Zakinthos], sonnet (1803)
  [To the Muse], sonnet (1803)
  [In death of brother John], sonnet (1803)
  [Of the Sepulchres], carmen (1807)
  [Of the Graces], short poem (1803–1827, unfinished)

 Novels 
  (1799–1801)
  [The last letters of Jacopo Ortis] (1802)

 Plays 
  [Thyestes] (1797)
  [Ajax] (1811)
  (1813)

 References 

 Other websites 

 Fóscolo, Ugo at Treccani 
 FOSCOLO, Ugo on  (1997) 
 Foscolo, Ugo on  (2005) 
 Foscolo, Ugo on  (2010) 
 Foscolo, Ugo on  (2014) 


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