What is Giosuè Carducci?
{{nobelprize|Literature}} {{Infobox Writer |name = Giosuè Carducci |image = Giosuè Carducci2.jpg |imagesize = 180px |caption = Giosuè Carducci |image_alt = |birth_date = {{birth date|1835|7|27|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Pietrasanta|Valdicastello]], [[Italy]] |nationality = Italian |death_date = {{death date and age|1961|2|16|1835|7|21|mf=y}} |death_place = [[Bologna]], [[Italy]] |awards = [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (1906) }} '''Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci''' ([[Pietrasanta]], 27 July 1835 – [[Bologna]], 16 February 1907) was an Italian [[poet]] and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern [[Italy]]. In 1906, he became the first Italian to win the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. He was fascinated with the restrained style of [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] antiquity, and his mature work reflects a restrained classical style, often using the classical meters of Latin poets as [[Horace]] and [[Virgil]]. {{Nobel Prize in Literature}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carducci, Giosue}} [[Category:Italian poets]] [[Category:1835 births]] [[Category:1907 deaths]] [[Category:Italian Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:19th-century Italian writers]]