Editing Giosuè Carducci (section)

=== Early life and education ===
Giosuè Carducci was born in Valdicastello in [[Pietrasanta]], a small town currently part of the [[Province of Lucca]] in the northwest corner of [[Tuscany]], which at the time was [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany|an independent grand duchy]]. His father, Michele, was a country doctor and an advocate of the unification of Italy. A member of the [[Carbonari|Carboneria]], in his youth he had suffered imprisonment for his share in the [[Revolutions of 1830|revolution of 1831]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Adolfo Lippi |date=November 22, 2023 |title=Versilia, così l'impronta della Massoneria ha segnato l'ex Perla del Tirreno |url=https://www.iltirreno.it/versilia/cronaca/2023/11/22/news/cosi-l-impronta-della-massoneria-ha-segnato-l-ex-perla-del-tirreno-1.100426109 |language=it}}</ref> Because of his politics, the family was forced to move several times during Carducci's childhood, eventually settling for a few years in [[Florence]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Carducci's father attempted to impart to his son his own fervent enthusiasm for the writings of [[Alessandro Manzoni|Manzoni]], but Carducci never acquired a taste for [[Romanticism]]. The boy was also taught [[Latin]] by his father and delighted in the works of [[Virgil]] and other ancient authors. He avidly read books on the [[history of Rome]] and anything dealing with the [[French Revolution]]. He wrote his first poems when he was still a boy, in 1846.

After the failure of the [[Revolutions of 1848|revolution of 1848]], the Carducci family was obliged to move. The threat of violence became too great for Carducci's father, and the family relocated first to [[Lajatico]], then to Florence.

Carducci went to religious schools until 1852, and was influenced by his rhetoric teacher, the [[Piarists|Piarist]] Father Geremia Barsottini, who had translated into Italian prose all the ''[[Odes (Horace)|odes]]'' or [[Horace]]. The boy became fascinated with the restrained style of [[Greek Antiquity|Greek]] and [[Roman Antiquity]], and translated Book&nbsp;9 of [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'' into Italian. In these years Carducci became further impassioned in the cause of [[Unification of Italy|Italian unification]] and discovered the works of [[Ugo Foscolo]] and [[Giuseppe Mazzini]]. After completing his education, Carducci followed his wandering father to [[Celle sul Rigo]] on [[Monte Amiata]], but soon after won a [[scholarship]] to the prestigious [[Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa]].