***** Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. His first publication, Il Fanciullino, in 1897 emphasizes the importance of the particular and the everyday, while also evoking a childlike, almost primal dimension. Although he … Continue reading Giovanni Pascoli: Five of his poems in versions by Stuart Henson