# Giovanni Prati

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Poet and politician from Italy

Giovanni Prati

**Giovanni Prati** (27 January 1815 – 9 May 1884) was an Italian poet and politician.

## Biography

Prati was born in [Comano Terme](/source/Comano_Terme), province of [Trento](/source/Trento), then part of the Austrian Empire. He studied law at the [university of Padua](/source/University_of_Padua). He was a close friend of [Aleardo Aleardi](/source/Aleardo_Aleardi), with whom his name is commonly linked.

Prati established his reputation when he moved to [Milan](/source/Milan) in 1840 and wrote *Edmenegarda* (1841). This *novella in versi* about bourgeois passion and hypocrisy, had great success with the public, though critics were less convinced. Subsequent narrative and philosophical poems such as *Satana e le Grazie* (1855) and *Armando* (1864) also had a mixed reception on account of the schematic treatment of their characters' psychology. He became an important figure of Milanese culture and attended the [salon](/source/Salon_(gathering)) hosted by countess [Clara Maffei](/source/Clara_Maffei).

His various collections of lyric poetry derived their appeal mainly from their sentimental qualities, although the charm and grace of some poems looks forwards to [Pascoli](/source/Giovanni_Pascoli), and the late *Psiche* (1876) and *Iside* (1878) show a new realism of approach.

Prati was a convinced monarchist—leading to embittered relations with republicans like [Daniele Manin](/source/Daniele_Manin) in Venice—and wrote various celebratory poems for the [House of Savoy](/source/House_of_Savoy). His devotion to the royal house of Savoy brought him into trouble with several leading figures of the [Risorgimento](/source/Unification_of_Italy), to the point that [Guerrazzi](/source/Francesco_Domenico_Guerrazzi) expelled him from the [Tuscan Republic](/source/Tuscan_Republic_(1849)) in 1849 for his praise of [Carlo Alberto](/source/Carlo_Alberto).[1]

Prati became official royal historian in [Turin](/source/Turin) in the early 1860s and began a successful political career. In 1862 he was elected a deputy to the Italian parliament, and in 1876 a senator. He died in Rome on 9 May 1884. Prati was a prolific poet, his volumes of verse ranging from his romantic narrative *Ermenegarda* (1841) to the lyrics collected in *Psiche* (1875) and *Iside* (1878). His *Opere vane* were published in five volumes in 1875, and a selection in one volume in 1892.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-EB191122_1-0)** One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Prati, Giovanni](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Prati,_Giovanni)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-EB1911_2-0)** One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Prati, Giovanni](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Prati,_Giovanni)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 254.

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