Giovanni pascoli biography

English translations of his poems were published in 1923 and 1927. He also translated poems of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Tennyson. An Italian literary award, the Pascoli Prize, was established in 1962 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death, and his birthplace was named San Mauro Pascoli.

The Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney first encountered Pascoli's work in 2001 on a visit to Urbino. Heaney later translated and reworked Pascoli's ‘L’aquilone’ (‘The Kite’) which was published in 2009. Heaney went on to publish his translation of ‘L’ultima passeggiata’ (The Last Walk) which was published after his death in 2013 in a limited edition.

In 2010 Red Hen Press published Pascoli's poems in English translation, under the title "Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli."

Giovanni Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar. Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (in his honor renamed "San Mauro Pascoli" in 1932), into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli.