Giovanni Bertacchi


Giovanni Bertacchi was a poet, teacher and Italian literary critic.

Biography

His poetry was heavily influenced by Giovanni Pascoli, both in terms of the search for metric forms and the characteristic taste for landscape descriptions.
He was a professor of Italian literature at the University of Padua from 1916 to 1938 when he voluntarily left the teaching position against fascism.
He was the author of critical studies on Dante, Leopardi, Manzoni, Alfieri, Mazzini. His first and perhaps most important poetic work is the Canzoniere delle Alpi, published in 1895. About 60 years, in conjunction with the release of his latest collection Il perenne domani. These were pervaded by the nostalgia for childhood and for its places of origin.
He was buried in the cemetery of Chiavenna, a sarcophagus created by Enrico Pancera.

Main works

Critical studies