Tags: Poem.
Dei Sepolcri is a poem written by the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo in 1806 and published in 1807. It consists of 295 hendecasyllabic verses. The carme (as the author defined it) is dedicated to another poet Ippolito Pindemonte with whom Foscolo had been discussing the recent Napoleonic law regarding tombs.Foscolo held materialistic views about man’s destiny after death but he strongly affirmed the value of tombs as memorials to noble souls or bright intellects.
