Dei Sepolcri

"Dei Sepolcri" ("Sepulchres") is a poem written by the Italian poet, Ugo Foscolo, in 1806, and published in 1807. It consists of 295 hendecasyllabic verses. The carme (as the author defined it) is dedicated to another poet, Ippolito Pindemonte, with whom Foscolo had been discussing the recent Napoleonic law regarding tombs. Neoclassical in its idiom, but romantic in its compression, depth of feeling, and unexpected changes of direction, it sets the transforming power of the imagination against materialist rationalism in ways that anticipate and bear comparison with Leopardi.

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