Giusti

Giusti, GIUSEPPE, political poet and satirist, was born 12th May 1809, at Monsummano, near Pistoia. He studied law at Pisa, and for a time practised at Florence; but from 1830 onwards found his sphere as a keen and incisive satirist, writing in brilliant and popular style a series of poems, in which the enemies of Italy and the vices of the age were mercilessly denounced. But it was not till 1848 that he published a volume of verse under his own name. Save in satire his work is second-rate. He was elected a member of the Tuscan chamber of deputies in 1848, and died 31st March 1850. Among his most notable poems (all short) were Il Dies Irae (1835), Lo Stivale (1836), Girella (1840), Sant' Ambrogio (1844). Editions of his works were published in 1863 and 1877. See Fioretto, Giuseppe Giusti (1877).