← Giosue CarducciLevia Graviaby Giosue CarducciCollection balancing serious and light poetic treatmentsFind on Amazon↗About the authorGiosue CarducciItalian poet who was the first Italian Nobel laureate (1906) and the most important Italian poet of the second half of the nineteenth century. His Odi Barbare adapted classical Greek meters to Italian.More by Giosue CarducciRimeLyric verses of classical form celebrating Italian history→JuveniliaEarly youthful poems of romantic and classical inspiration→Odi BarbareBarbarous odes reviving classical meters in modern verse→Rime NuoveNew poems of mature reflection and classical restraint→