Ugo Foscolo

Niccolò Ugo Foscolo
Portrait by François-Xavier Fabre, 1813
Born	(1778-02-06)6 February 1778 Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now Greece
Died	10 September 1827(1827-09-10) (aged 49) Turnham Green, now London, England
Resting place	Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
Pen name	Didimo Chierico
Occupation	Poet, writer, soldier
Language	Italian
Nationality	Venetian-Greek
Citizenship	Venetian (1778–1799), Italian (until 1814), Britain (1814–1827)
Period	1796–1827
Genres	lyrical poetry, epistolary novel, literary critic
Literary movement	Neoclassicism, Pre-Romanticism
Partner	Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi (1795–1796) Isabella Roncioni (1800–1801) Antonietta Fagnani Arese (1801–1803) Fanny "Sophia" Emerytt-Hamilton (1804–1805) Quirina Mocenni Magiotti (1812–1813)
Children	Mary "Floriana" Hamilton-Foscolo (from Fanny Hamilton)
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Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-];^[1] 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.^[2]

He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem Dei Sepolcri.