CARRER, LUIGI ARMINIO

CARRER, LUIGI ARMINIO. – Born in Venice on 12 February 1801; in his youth he improvised tragedies in the manner of Sgricci; he then devoted himself to philological studies; he was assistant to the chair of philosophy at the University of Padua until 1883; he subsequently turned to journalism and directed Il Gondoliere, a periodical that met with public favor and continued to appear until 1847; in 1845 he was appointed deputy secretary of the Veneto Institute and in 1846 director of the Correr Institute; he died in Venice on 23 December 1850.

These many activities did not hinder his poetic production: his first collection of poems dates from 1819; it was followed by the poem entitled Il Clotaldo (Venice 1826), the Poesie (Padua 1831–32), and the Ballate, a collection of

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CARROCCIO — The Battle of Legnano by Amos Cassiole (1870); in the background, the C. — Florence, Gallery of Modern Art.

songs that were for the most part narrative, with a Romantic flavor, published in a first edition in 1834 and then reprinted in 1837 with the addition of other romances. Among the Idilli, those with biblical subjects are noteworthy: I primi esuli, L'arcobaleno, Agar, Abigaille, Le stagioni cristiane... Also in the Poesie is an ode in decasyllables that serves as a program of Romanticism: La poesia dei secoli cristiani. The most important prose work is entitled Anello di sette gemme o Venezia e la sua storia; but the prose writer is far inferior to the poet. C. was an ingenious artist, possessing an easy vein and a taste that was at once Classical and Romantic; nevertheless, neither in life nor in art did he possess profound feelings or firm convictions.