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ZANELLA, GIACOMO (1820-1888)

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ZANELLA, GIACOMO (1820-1888) , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at Chiampo, near See also:Vicenza, on the 9th of See also:September 1820, and was educated for the priesthood. After his ordination he be-came See also:professor at the See also:lyceum of his native See also:place, but his patriotic sympathies excited the See also:jealousy of the See also:Austrian authorities, and although protected by his diocesan, he was compelled to resign in 1853. After the liberation of See also:Venetia, the Italian See also:government conferred upon him a professorship at See also:Padua, and he achieved distinction as a poet on the publication of his first See also:volume of poems in 1868. In 1872 grief for the See also:death of his See also:mother occasioned a See also:mental malady, which led to the resignation of his professorship. After his See also:complete and permanent recovery he built himself a See also:villa on the See also:bank of his native See also:river, the Astichello, and lived there in tranquillity until his death on the 17th of May 1888. His last published volume contains a See also:series of sonnets of singular beauty, addressed to the river, resembling See also:Wordsworth's " Sonnets to the Duddon," but more perfect in See also:form; and a See also:blank See also:verse idyll, "11 Pettirosso " (" The See also:Redbreast "), bearing an equally strong, though equally accidental, resemblance to the similar compositions of See also:Coleridge. His See also:ode to See also:Dante, and that on the opening of the See also:Suez See also:Canal, are distinguished by See also:great dignity. Of his other compositions, the most individual are those in which, deeply impressed by the problems of his See also:day, he has sought to reconcile See also:science and See also:religion, especially the See also:fine See also:dialogue between See also:Milton and Galileo, where the former, impressed by Galileo's predictions of the intellectual consequences of scientific progress, resolves " to justify the ways of See also:God to See also:man." Zanella was a broad-minded and patriotic ecclesiastic, and his See also:character is justly held in equal See also:honour with his See also:poetry, which, if hardly to be termed powerful, wears a See also:stamp of See also:peculiar elegance and finish, and asserts a place of its own in See also:modern Italian literature.

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