Surname: Foscolo Forename(s): Ugo b. 1778. d. 1827. Nationality: Italian. VIAF.
Major poet, novelist, critic, dramatist, revolutionary, and soldier. Served with the
French in Northern Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. Afterwards went into exile in
Switzerland, then London. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, and the New Monthly Magazine. Author of tragedies, lyrical neo-classical sonnets, and the first Romantic Italian
novel, Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1802). Biographical information: Oxford Reference. (CC)