Quotes:Carducci, Giosuè

Zirkoff, Boris

Carducci, Giosuè. Italian poet, b. at Val-di-Castello, Tuscany, July 27, 1836; d. in 1907. Educated at the Univ, of Pisa; began life as a public teacher at Arezzo, but ran into opposition for his political ideas. Settled for a while at Florence, and became, 1860, prof, of Italian literature at Bologna where he lectured for some 40 years. He and a group of his young friends advocated a return from romantic tastes to classical models. Carducci was an admirer of ancient mythologies and mystical traditions. “Other gods die,” he wrote, “but the divinities of Greece know no setting.” He was an ardent Mason. Among his many powerful poems, he also wrote in his younger days an hymn to Satan *“A Satana” which appeared in 1865.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 638