- Aleardo Aleardi
Aleardo Aleardi (born Gaetano Maria) (
November 14 1812 -July 17 1878 ) was an Italian poet who belonged to the so-called Neo-romanticists.Aleardo was born in
Verona in 1812, and took an active part in the movement of theRisorgimento . In 1848 he went toParis , invited byManin , to garner support for theVenetian Republic . He was arrested twice: atMantova in 1852 and atJosephstadt inBohemia in 1859. He then worked as deputy,senator , and finally as professor ofaesthetics atFlorence , where he died in 1878.Poetry
His poetic work is not extensive, and mostly revolves around the themes of
history and thefatherland . He was in fact called the poet of history because of his tendency to research and relive the past, also the distant past ofprehistory and the mythical infancy of the earth ("Il monte Circello" (Circello mountain), 1856 and "Le prime storie" (The first stories), 1857). However, one often finds that thisnostalgia for the past is, more often than not, a pretext to display hiseloquence .
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