Giovanni Battista Niccolini - Florence, Italy
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The Liberty of Poetry sculpture was created for the tomb of Italian playwright and poet Giovanni Battista Niccolini. The monument is located in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.
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Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 01/03/2020
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Giovanni Battista Niccolini wrote plays and poems in support of the movement to unify Italy. His tomb is marked by a marble statue called Liberty of Poetry that was sculpted by Pio Fedi in 1877. The statue is presumed to be the model for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Fedi created a plaster cast of this sculpture in 1872 whereas Bartholdi began working on his sculpture in 1875.
The pedestal of the Liberty of Poetry contains the inscription:
A G.B. NICCOLINI
TO G.B. NICCOLINI
Giovanni Battista was born in Bagni San Giuliano, Italy in 1792. He wrote his first play Polyxena in Greek in 1810. The tragedy is based on Greek legend about the sacrifice of a virgin. He followed with three more tragedies: Medea, Oedipus and Ino and Temisto. He gained fame in Italy for his revolutionary romantic tragedies Antonio Foscarini, Giovanni of Proccida, Arnold of Brescia, and Beatrice Cenci.
Other works by Giovanni Battista Niccolini include:
Nabucco
Matilde
Lodovico il Moro
Rosmunda of England
Le Coefore
Filippo Strozzi
Mario and the Cimbri
Elogio D'andrea Orgagna Composto Da Gio
Prose Varie E Iscrizioni Edite E Inedite
La Divina Commedia Di Dante Allighieri, Volume 1, 2, 3
Opere In Verso E In Prosa
Poesie Nazionali (National Poetry)
Del Sublime E Di Michelangiolo
Storia della casa di Svevia in Italia by G. B Niccolini
Pensieri poetici (Poetic thoughts)
History of the Jesuits: Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs
The History Of The Pontificate Of Pius IX