Giovanni

Marradi (1852-1922) was an Italian poet born at  Leghorn and

                                                                       educated
at  Pisa and Florenc.

                            At the latter place
he started with
others a short-lived review,

                                  the Nuovi Goliardi, which made some
literary sensation.

                                                         He became a teacher at various
colleges,

                                 and
eventually an educational inspector in Massa Carrara .

  He was
much influenced by  Carducci, and became known not only as a critic

                                                                but
as a charming descriptive poet,

                         his
principal volumes of verse being
Canzone moderne (1870),

          Fantasie marnie (1881), Canzoni
e fantasie (1853), Ricordi lirici (1884),

                        Poesie
(1887), Nuovi canti (1891) and Ballati moderne (1895).