Carducci and Gutiérrez Nájera: Two Examples of Reading of Horace in the Classical Tradition of 19th Century

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Giosuè Carducci are two of the most important authors of Mexico and Italy respectively. Both were inspired by the French poetry of their time and shared a literary ideal of definition and construction of their national identity. Among the different ways to do this work, t...

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Author: Manríquez Lozano, Néstor Elián
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:México
Institution:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repository:(an)ecdótica
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/115
Online Access:https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/anEcdotica/index.php/anec/article/view/115
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Modernism
Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
Giosuè Carducci
risorgimento
National poet
Classical tradition
Horace
Modernismo
poeta nacional
tradición clásica
Horacio
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Summary:Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Giosuè Carducci are two of the most important authors of Mexico and Italy respectively. Both were inspired by the French poetry of their time and shared a literary ideal of definition and construction of their national identity. Among the different ways to do this work, the use of Classical tradition, and specifically in the presence of Horace, allows us to recognize the differences and similarities of the nineteenth-century ideas of both authors.