Editing Giosuè Carducci (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Bologna - Casa Carducci - 2023-09-13 13-24-51 001.JPG|thumb|300px|The library of Casa Carducci]]
Carducci dominated the Italian literary scene in the last thirty or forty years of the 19th century.{{sfn|Wellek|1960|p=37}} He is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Italy.{{sfn|Giuntoni|1931|p=9}} Carducci's works are exceptional in their synthesis of literary qualities often seen as opposites. Though his life coincided with the height of Romanticism in Italy, he took the classical mode as his paradigm of artistic creation. This might have made him a curious anachronism, but his passion and his agility with classical form kept his works free of the servility that mars much [[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] poetry. In the ''Rime nuove'' Carducci proves a skilful reworker of medieval themes in poems such as ‘Il comune rustico’, ‘Sui campi di Marengo’, and ‘Faida di comune’ (as also in ''La canzone di Legnano'' of 1879); whilst he achieves remarkable blends of neoclassical and romantic motifs in ‘Primavere elleniche’ and pure moments of autobiographical lyricism in ‘Idillio maremmano’, ‘Pianto antico’, and ‘Davanti a San Guido’. Of the ''Odi barbare'' ‘Alla stazione in una mattina d'autunno’, which culminates in the image of the steam engine carrying his beloved away from him like a fiery [[Moloch]], is one of the most impressive Italian poems of all time. The [[Museum of the Risorgimento, Bologna]] is housed in the Casa Carducci, the house where he died, and contains an exhibit on the author. Carducci's poems have been translated several times into English.<ref>See {{harnvb|Groves|2000|pp=230-2}}</ref> The crater [[Carducci (crater)|Carducci]] on [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] is named in his honor.