Severino Ferrari | |
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| Born | March 26, 1856 Molinella |
| Died | December 24, 1905 Pistoia |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, literary critic |
Severino Ferrari (March 26, 1856, Molinella – December 24, 1905, Pistoia) was an Italian poet and literary critic.[1]
Biography
editHe was born in San Pietro Capofiume (a small town in the municipality of Molinella), in the district of Alberino,[2] the son of doctor Luigi Ferrari and Giuseppina Sarti, sister of the Bolognese sculptor Diego Sarti.
Although endowed with an originality of his own, Severino Ferrari was continually compared (with disadvantageous results for him)[3] to Giovanni Pascoli, whom he met in 1873[4] following a request for some Latin repetitions.[5] A lifelong fraternal friendship developed between Pascoli and Ferrari.[6]
In the summer of 1876 he met Giosuè Carducci. He became his student at the University of Bologna and with the master edited the annotated edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere.
References
edit- ^ Carsaniga, Giovanni (2002), "Ferrari, Severino", The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780198183327.001.0001/acref-9780198183327-e-1278, ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7, retrieved 2024-02-14
- ^ F. Felcini, Nota biografica, in S. Ferrari, Tutte le poesie, a cura di F. Felcini, Bologna, Cappelli, 1966, p. 76
- ^ Benedetto Croce riteneva superiore la poesia pascoliana a quella del Ferrari (cfr. B. Croce, Giovanni Pascoli, Bari, Laterza, 1956, pp. 37-38).
- ^ A. Colasanti, Cronologia della vita e delle opere, in G. Pascoli, Tutte le poesie a cura di A. Colasanti, Roma, Newton Compton, 2001, p. X.
- ^ Michele Tortorici, La letteratura italiana nell'orizzonte europeo, Oberon, 1993, vol. 2, p. 119.
- ^ L. Torraca, Giovanni Pascoli,Istituto Padano di arti grafiche, 1954 p. 48: l'affettuosa amicizia di Severino Ferrari: amicizia che solo la morte riuscirà a troncare