Giovanni Pascoli [SEP] cause of death
cancer at the age of 56 in Bologna. An atheist, he was entombed in the chapel annexed to his house at Castelvecchio, where his beloved sister, Maria, would also be laid to rest.
Poetics.
Although he was not an active participant in any literary movement of the time, nor showed any particular propensity towards contemporary European poetry (as opposed to D'Annunzio), he manifests in his works mainly spiritualistic and idealistic tendencies, typical of late nineteenth century culture marked by the progressive exhaustion of Positivism.
Maria Pascoli
Mariù Pascoli is the pseudonym of the Italian writer and poet Maria Pascoli (November 1, 20, 1865 – December 5, 1953). She is the sister of the poet Giovanni Pascoli, whom she assisted until his death and whose archives she kept in the house that bears his name.
Biography.
Born in 1865, Maria was the youngest of ten children. She lost her father at the age of two, and a year later, her older sister Margherita died also. The following year