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NEGRI (187o– )  , Italian poet, was born at Lodi, of an artisan family, and became a village school-teacher . Her first book of poems, Tempeste (1891), tells the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty . Her second volume of lyrics, Fatalitd (1893), confirmed her reputation as a poet, and led to her appointment to the normal school at Milan; but her later verse, while striking in its sincerity, suffered by a tendency to repetition and consequent mannerism .