Aleardo Aleardi born Gaetano Maria, was an Italian

Italy

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 poet who belonged to the so-called Neo-romanticists

Neo-romanticism

The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in music, painting and architecture. It has been used with reference to very late 19th century and early 20th century composers such as Gustav Mahler particularly by Carl Dahlhaus who uses it as synonymous with late Romanticism...

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Aleardo was born in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

 in 1812, and took an active part in the movement of the Risorgimento. In 1848 he went to Paris

Paris

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, invited by Manin

Manin

Manin may refer to:*Daniele Manin , Italian statesman and patriot of the period of Italian Unification*Ludovico Manin , last Doge of Venice*Tunka Manin , ruler of the Ghana Empire*Yuri I. Manin , mathematician...

, to garner support for the Venetian Republic. He was arrested twice: at Mantova in 1852 and at Josephstadt in Bohemia

Bohemia

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 in 1859. He then worked as deputy, senator, and finally as professor of aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

 at Florence

Florence

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, where he died in 1878.

Poetry

His poetic work is not extensive, and mostly revolves around the themes of history

History

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 and the fatherland

Fatherland

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. He was in fact called the poet of history because of his tendency to research and relive the past, also the distant past of prehistory

Prehistory

Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

 and the mythical infancy of the earth (Il monte Circello (Circello mountain), 1856 and Le prime storie (The first stories), 1857). However, one often finds that this nostalgia

Nostalgia

The term nostalgia describes a yearning for the past, often in idealized form.The word is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of , meaning "returning home", a Homeric word, and , meaning "pain, ache"...

 is, more often than not, a pretext to display his eloquence

Eloquence

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