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ZANELLA, GIACOMO (1820-1888) , Italian poet, was born at Chiampo, near Vicenza, on the 9th of September 1820, and was educated for the priesthood. After his ordination he be-came professor at the lyceum of his native place, but his patriotic sympathies excited the jealousy of the Austrian authorities, and although protected by his diocesan, he was compelled to resign in 1853. After the liberation of Venetia, the Italian government conferred upon him a professorship at Padua, and he achieved distinction as a poet on the publication of his first volume of poems in 1868. In 1872 grief for the death of his mother
series of sonnets of singular beauty, addressed to the river, resembling Wordsworth's " Sonnets to the Duddon," but more perfect in form; and a blank verse idyll, "11 Pettirosso " (" The Redbreast "), bearing an equally strong, though equally accidental, resemblance to the similar compositions of Coleridge. His ode to Dante
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character is justly held in equal honour with his poetry, which, if hardly to be termed powerful, wears a stamp of peculiar
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