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Foscolo

/ ˈfɔskolo /

noun

  1. FoscoloUgo17781827MItalianWRITING: poetWRITING: writer Ugo (ˈuːɡo), real name Niccolò Foscolo . 1778–1827, Italian poet and writer; his patriotic verse includes Dei sepolcri (1807)


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He collected materials for the edition of Foscolo's works, which was so near his heart now as at a later time.

His interest strengthened, now 94 that he was living close to where Foscolo's bones lay in Chiswick churchyard.

For years with the true student's fever he hunted up every letter and record of Foscolo, to which he could find a clue.

Introduction and notes to Foscolo's edition of the Divina Commedia (see above, p. 94).

Foscolo remarks the restless spirit which all his life drove Petrarch, like a perturbed spirit, from one residence to another.

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