Giosuè Carducci

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1906
Nobel Co-recipient Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Poet, Senator. Wrote poetry as child. Excellent translator, literary historian, orator. Conducted research in every phase of literature and eloquently expressed his findings. Poetry inspired compatriots in war for Italian independence, enjoyed immense popularity at home and abroad. Greatest Italian literary figure in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony Banquet was held on December 10, 1906. C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, delivered his Presentation Speech in Italian. He spoke about the poet, Giosuè Carducci [age 71 yrs], who, due to illness was unable to travel to Stockholm to attend the ceremony to receive the award.

Mr. Caprara, the Italian chargé d'Affaires, expressed his gratitude in French. He addressed his speech to the country of Alfred Nobel and promised to convey the homage to the poet, Giosuè Carducci.