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Product Description Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols’s lucid verse translation. Expressing the author’s political, civic and sentimental concerns, these poems will surprise the English reader with their immediacy and intimacy. Sepulchres, Foscolo’s masterpiece, as well as being one of the pinnacles of European neoclassical literature, is still one of the most widely studied poems in Italy. Foscolo’s poetry reveals the inner recesses of a passionate, restless and surprisingly modern mind. About the Author Ugo Foscolo (17781827) is best known for his long poem "On" "Sepulchres" and his unfinished work "The Graces."J.G. Nichols has translated the work of Dante Alighieri, Giacomo Leopardi, and numerous other Italian authors."