Italy 2 Euro 2012 "100th Anniversary of the Death of Giovanni Pascoli" UNC

Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (December 31, 1855 – April 6, 1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar.

Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna (in his honor renamed "San Mauro Pascoli" in 1932), into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli. His father was administrator of an estate of farm land of the Princes Torlonia on which the Pascoli family lived.

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