Editing Giosuè Carducci (section)

==Works==
[[File:Giambi ed epodi.jpg|thumb|Carducci's ''Giambi ed Epodi'', Bologna, Zanichelli, 1921]]
It is not always easy to follow the development of Carducci's poetry through the collections he edited. The poet in fact organized his compositions several times and in different ways and gave a definitive arrangement only later in the edition of his ''Opere'' published for Zanichelli between 1889 and 1909. The following is a list of poetic works published in one volume, then rearranged into the 20 volumes of his ''Opere''.

* ''Rime'', San Miniato, 1857.
* ''{{ill|Levia Gravia|it}}'', 1868.
* ''Poesie'', Firenze, Barbera, 1871.
* ''Primavere elleniche'', 1872.
* ''Nuove poesie'', 1873.
* ''[[Barbarian Odes|Odi barbare]]'', 1877.
* ''Juvenilia'', 1880.
* ''Levia Gravia'', 1881.
* ''{{ill|Giambi ed Epodi|it}}'', 1882.
* ''Nuove odi barbare'', 1882.
* ''{{ill|Rime nuove|it}}'', 1887.
* ''Terze odi barbare'', 1889.
* ''Delle Odi barbare. Libri II ordinati e corretti'', 1893.
* ''{{ill|Rime e ritmi|it}}'', 1899.
* ''Poesie. MDCCCL-MCM'', 1901.

Below are the poetic volumes in the ''Opere''. The volumes, however, do not correspond to the chronological order with which the poet had published his first collections, but refer more than anything else to the distinctions of genres and therefore we find poems of the same period in different collections. The collections follow this order:

* ''Juvenilia'', in six books, 1850–1860
* ''Levia Gravia'', in two books, 1861–1871
* ''Inno a Satana'', 1863
* ''Giambi ed Epodi'', in two books, 1867–1879
* ''Intermezzo'', 1874–1887
* ''Rime Nuove'', in nine books, 1861–1887
* ''Odi barbare'', in two books, 1873–1889
* ''Rime e Ritmi'', 1889–1898
* ''Della Canzone di Legnano'', Part I, 1879
Although his reputation rests primarily on his poetry, Carducci also produced a large body of prose works.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tomasin |first=Lorenzo |title="Classica e odierna". Studi sulla lingua di Carducci |publisher=Olschki |year=2007 |location=Florence}}</ref> Indeed, his prose writings, including literary criticism, biographies, speeches and essays, fill some 20 volumes.<ref>{{cite book |title=Selections from Carducci; Prose and Poetry with introduction, notes and vocabulary by A. Marinoni |publisher=William R. Jenkins |year=1913 |location=New York |pages=vii–ix |no-pp=true}}</ref> Carducci’s best critical works are his ample commentary on the works of [[Giuseppe Parini|Parini]], his essay on [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]’s ''[[Le Rime|Rime]]'', his defense of [[Torquato Tasso|Tasso]]’s ''[[Aminta]]'', and his study of the early works of [[Ugo Foscolo|Foscolo]].{{sfn|Wellek|1960|p=43}} Carducci edited several editions of Italian classical authors, including [[Petrarch]], [[Lorenzo de' Medici]], [[Poliziano]] and [[Salvator Rosa]]. He was also an important translator of German poetry into Italian, in particular of Heine and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]].