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ADA NEGRI (187o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEGRI (187o– )  , See also:Italian poet, was See also:born at See also:Lodi, of an See also:artisan See also:family, and became a See also:village school-teacher . Her first See also:book of poems, Tempeste (1891), tells the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty . Her second See also:volume of lyrics, Fatalitd (1893), confirmed her reputation as a poet, and led to her See also:appointment to the normal school at See also:Milan; but her later See also:verse, while striking in its sincerity, suffered by a tendency to repetition and consequent mannerism .

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