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 his change of political creed. In 1868, he was suspended from his professorship on account of the part he had taken in an address sent to Mazzini, but so great was his popularity in Bologna that the suspension was of short duration. In 1871, appeared a volume entitled "Poems of Giosue Carducci" ("Poesie di Giosue Carducci"), but his name only came into wide prominence with the publication in 1873 of the "New Poems" ("Nuove Poesie"). The "Barbaric Odes" ("Odi Barbare"), the first of which appeared in 1877, completed the establishment of his fame in Italy—a fame which ever since has been steadily increasing and spreading beyond the confines of his own land. In 1887, the poet was offered the newly instituted Dante Chair at the University of Rome, but declined the honor in order to remain in Bologna—to which city he had become by this time intimately attached, and in which he still makes his real home.

In glancing over the record of Carducci's life, as reflected both in his acts and in his work, one is impressed chiefly, I think, by the unity of principle which underlies its many phases. His poetry and prose voice, through all variety of

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