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Giovanni Carmelo Verga was born in Catania in September 1840. Before becoming a writer he studied law at the University of Catania. Meanwhile he started writing his second novel ,I CARBONARI DELLA MONTAGNA,an historical novel.
Now we know him as an Italian realist writer,best known for his depiction of life in his native Sicily and especially for the short story CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and the novel I MALAVOGLIA.
His reputation was slow to develop,but modern critics affirmed him as one of the greatest of the Italian novelist.
His influence was marked on the post-World war II generation of Italian authors.
When he lived in Milan the ideas of other writer influenced his work.
Verga wrote with terse accuracy and an intensity of human feeling that constitute a distinctively lyrical Realism.
His realistic representation of the life of the poor people and fishermen of Sicily are particularly notable in his works.

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salvatore qausimodo was an italian poet
He was born in Modica,Sicily in 1908,he moved
to Messina because his father helped the population struck by a devastating earthqauke
The impressions of the effects of natural forces have a great impact on the Quasimodo's production
In 1919 he moved to Rome to finish engineering studies,in 1929 he moved to Florence for sister's wedding and met poets Alessandro Bonsanti and Eugenio Montale
Published "Acqua e terre "
In 1934 he moved to Milan and he working with Cesare Zavattini
In 1938 published "Poesie" and in 1950 he won awards: San Babilia,Etna-Taormina and finally,the Nobel prize for literature
He died in 1968 in the hospital in Naples
His ispiration was the Sicilian's landscape and the greek culture
He rember during his exile animals and tipical trees and Sicily's seasons,he saw lored nature with feaw but he was afraid.
He wrote "Ride la ragazza,nera sugli aranci" because he was distance from motherland,he thought abaout sea Mediterraneo where he grow up

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He was one of the major exponents of the Land art;
This movement emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. As a trend "Land art" expanded boundaries of art by the siting of the works (often diatant from population centers) and the materials use that are often basic substance of the Earth eventually including soil, rocks, vegetation and water found on_site.

Early Years
De Maria was born in 1935 in Albany, California.His parents were the owners of a local restaurant in Albany.
He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Trained as a painter, he soon turned to sculpture and began using other media. In the 1960s, De Maria partecipated in happenings and theatrical productions in the San Francisco area, where he developed an interest in game_like interactive projects.
For example his work "boxe for meaningless".

In 1960 De Maria also moved to New Jork, where he married his wife Susanne Wilson.
His early sculptures from this period were inspired by Dada, Suprematism, Minimalism and Constructivism. This influence led the artist into using simple geometric shapes and industrially manufactured materials such as stainless steel and alluminium-materials which are also characteristic of Minimal art.

Main Works
From 1968 De Maria produced Minimalism sculptures and installation such as the Munich Erdraum of 1968.
He realized Land art projet in the deserts of the south_west US, with the aim of creating situation where the landscape and the nature, light and weather would become an intense experience. In his works De Maria use the art as a way to make the viewer think about the earth and its relationship to the universe.
The best-know example of this is the instanlation "The Lightning Field" (1977);
it consist of 400 stainless steel post arranged in a grid over an area of 1 square mile so it light up during thunder storms. In the 1960s and 1970 he also created enduring urban work. Examples of this are:
"The Broken Kilometer" (1980) and the "Vertical Earth Kilometer" (1979), as complementary pieces, the first one consist in five hundred brass rods arrenged as a permanent installation at 393 West Broadway in New York,
instead the second one is a one_kilometer long brass rod five centimeter in diameter, inserted into the ground with the top lying flush to the surface of the earth, situated into Friedrichsplatz Park in Germany.

Last Important Works

In 1989 De Maria completed a sphere of polished granite for the Assemblée National in Paris, followed in 2000 and 2004 by works for two museum on Naoshima Island in Japan, 9 years later he died in New York.

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Ugo Foscolo was born in 1778 on the Greek island of Zakynthos. After his childhood, in 1793 he joined his mother in Venice. Here he stood out for his revolutionary restlessness.
Napoleon's descent into Italy, sparked the political enthusiasm of Foscolo. But when Napoleon gave Venice to Austria, the poet's disappointment was immense.
After this event, Foscolo began to wander from city to city: in Milan, Bologna, Florence, etc.
In 1813, Foscolo moved permanently to Milan. There he grew his fame as a man and poet.
One of his most famous works is the sonnet "a Zakynthos", composed between 1802 and 1803, and it is dedicated to the motherland. The poet remembers the Greek island of Zakynthos in which he was born and exiled, and compares himself with Ulysses, with the difference that he managed to return to his homeland, while the poet never touched the sacred shores.

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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel was a German biologist, zoologist, philosopher and artist.He has discovered thousands of new species and coined many terms in biology.Haeckel promoted the work of Charles Darwin in Germany, although he believed that evolution was determined from the environment and not only from the "natural selection". Haeckel's artistic work, initially published in separate sets of 10 lithographs, includes over 100 detailed illustrations of many marine creatures collected in 1904 in the book "Kunstformen der Natur". The work became widespread among Art Nouveau art historians beginning of the 20th century. The Art Nouveau, known as Art Nouveau style, was an artistic and philosophical movement active in the decades between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and which inspired the figurative arts. with nature

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Vincent William Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter is considerate one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art’s history. In just a decade he created about 2100 arteorks, including 860 oil paintings, which include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundation of modern art.

Sunflowers
Sunflowers is the name of two series of still life paintings made by Van Gogh. The first series, shows the flower lying on the ground, the second shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.

The starry night
The starry night was painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the cost-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addiction of an idealised village.

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George Gordon Byron (1788/1824) is considerated one of the most important poets of Britain. He was an important man for the Romantic culture. An event that that has characterized his life and his love for nature and for the seascape was the shipwreck in Patagonia that he tells in his song. He has always loved the European landscapes more than the English ones, inspiring many other poets. Lord Byron wrote many important poems among which: "Fugitive Pieces" and  "Poems on various occasions"
George Byron is known as the first modern celebrity and for his conception of the "Byronian hero". The Byronian hero is a imperfect hero having different qualities: big talent, compassion and respect to society.

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Some days ago our teacher suggested to do a research about various artists who are inspired by nature, italian lifestyle and landscapes. From this idea we decided to create a padlet that covers every artistic fields.

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De rerum natura is a first century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius.
His poem talks about the philosophy of Epicureism.
We know a few things about Lucretiu's life; the only certain fact is that he was either a friend of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was adressed and dedicated.
His poem "De rerum natura" transmits the ideas of Epicureism, which includes Atomism and psychology. Lucretius was the first writer to introduce Roman readers to Epicurean philosophy. The poem, written in 7,400 dactylic hexametres, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through rich poetic language and metaphors.
Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance", and not the divine intervetion of the traditional Roman deities

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8Domenico Dolce (Palermo) and Stefano Gabbana (Milano) are a vuole of Teo stilista which together create the famous brand "Dolce & Gabbana".
Starting rom the first collections they were inspired by Sicily, its colours and flavors, its landscapes, the mixture of different cultures. They perceived this Island like a magic place, visite every year by a lot of tourists from allover the world.
In 1987 they produced a collection simply called "La Sicilia", the dresses were black and simple like this of southern woman.
Then, they got inspired from Sicily's folkler especially from Pupi theatre, Sicilian carts and pottery.
But what truly inspired them is the sicilian landscape: they are used to refer to the sicilian sea and montains, but also they use sicilian flowers and trees.
In 2008 they created "Miss Sicily" an it-bag that became very famous in a short time, it was a simple model inspired to Sicily and it was really apprecieted.
Today they are two of the most famous stilysts in the world and they still take inspiration from Sicily for some of their collectiones

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Vincent William Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter is considerate one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art’s history. In just a decade he created about 2100 arteorks, including 860 oil paintings, which include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundation of modern art.

Sunflowers
Sunflowers is the name of two series of still life paintings made by Van Gogh. The first series, shows the flower lying on the ground, the second shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.

The starry night
The starry night was painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the cost-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addiction of an idealised village.

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Adriano Celentano was born in the 6th January 1938 in Milan. He is an Italian singer,composer,producer,comedian,actor,film director and TV host. He is nicknamed the “Molleggiato” because of his dancing. Celentano has released many record albums which have reached enormous commercial and critical success. One of his most important songs is “Il ragazzo della via Gluck”,which is an Italian pop song by Adriano Celentano,covered by artists from many other countries. The piece is full of autobiographical references,starting with the title that pays homage to the Greek district of Milan where the singer lived with his family, by it is above all a bitter portrait of an unequal struggle, strongly felt at the time. Modern and overbearing, the city extends more and more, up to swallow the countryside, destroying nature and beauty, and forcing its inhabitants to emigrate to work in modern city factories. The text tells of a boy who, with a broken heart, leaves the countryside, his friends, and the life in the open air, to move to the city. His tears not understandable at all, because moving to the city at that time is synonimous of more confortable and emancipated lifestyle.

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Sfiorivano le viole is a song player and written by Rino Gaetano, an extraordinary songwriter sadly died at the age of 31 after having composed some of the most known pieces of the italian music of the 70’s. From Gianna to Mio fratello è figlio unico. This one came out in 1976 as a 45 rpm records and the B side of the disc was Sfiorivano le Viole. This song is, following the Gaetano’s style, based on a surreal composition in which he wait his lover in a hot summer day. Watching the landscape Gaetano remember some important character of the XVIII-XIX centuries: La Fayette, Michele Navarro, Mameli and Otto Von Bismark-Shonhausen. The poet is between a beach and a field of Violet. Gaetano compare the flowers to his girl who became more and more beautiful as the violets blossom.

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Tratto dall'album: MIO FRATELLO E' FIGLIO UNICO (1976) FOFFO BIANCHI: Sax soprano e tenore GAIO CHIOCCHIO: Sitar e Latro MASSIMO BUZZI: Batteria, aggeggi e Tumbe LUCIANO CICCAGLIONI: Chitarre, Banjo e Mandolino TONI FORMICHELLA: Sax tenore MICHELANGELO PIAZZA: Tromba GUIDO PODESTA': Fisarmonica PIERO RICCI: Basso e Basso wawa ARTURO STALTIERI: Piano, Organo, Clavicembalo, Eminent e Moog RINO GAETANO: Voce BABAYAGA: Coro e vocalizzi Arrangiamenti, Testi e Musiche di Rino Gaetano

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Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer. He was born on the 23rd of November in 1955, and he trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan.

His music is ambient, meditative and often introspective, drawing in minimalism and contemporary pop. He released his first solo piano album ‘Le Onde’ in 1996. The album is based on the novel ‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf.
His next solo piano release, ‘I Giorni’, was inspired by his travels in Africa.
The ‘Elements’, another album, takes inspiration from elements of nature, with the title track epitomizing its exploration of organic growth.
His music is attached to the natural aspects of the world.
Einaudi describes ‘Una Mattina’ by saying “If someone asked me about this album, I would say it is a collection of songs linked together by a story. But unlike my other albums, it doesn’t belong to a time in the past. It speaks about me now, my life, the things around me. My piano, which I have nicknamed Tagore, my children Jessica and Leo, the orange klein carpet that brightens up the living room, the clouds sailing slowly across the sky, the sunlight coming through the window, the music i listen to, the books I read and those I don’t read, my  memories, my friends and the people I love.”

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Giovanni Costa was an important landscape painter who was born in 1826 and died in 1903.
His main characteristic was to spread naturalistic ideas all over the Italian regions.
Furthermore, he took an active paint into the Garibaldi's campain.
The main points for this artist were to choose the moment of the landscapes (for example the sunset or the sunrise) and the summary of the concept of the opera.
However he thought that landscape was the biggest method to give to nature its own harmony.
In 1882 he brought his paintings to London and the magazine Art dedicated him an article which made him a patriot appraised in Europe, but unknown in Italy.
His main operas were:
- "Donne che portano fascine a Porto D'Anzio."
- "Essere o non essere"
- "Casolari toscani"
- "Pineti"
- "Ad fontem Arcinum".

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Caspar David Friedrich was born in Germany, he was a Romantic landscape painter. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, his symbolic work seeks to convey an emotional response to the natural world. The visualisation and portrayal of landscape in an entirely new manner was Friedrich's key innovation, he sought not just to explore the enjoyment of a beautiful view, as in the classic conception, but rather to examine a reunion with the spiritual self through the contemplation of nature. Friedrich was instrumental in transforming landscape in art from a backdrop subordinated to human drama to a self contained emotive subject.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772, studied at Cambridge but was not graduated. He was influenced by the French Revolution ideas, came in contact with Wordsworth and they became good friends. He got settled in London and produced a classic text of literary criticism and autobiography. Died in 1834.
COLERIDGE'S VISION OF NATURE

Nature was a predominant theme in his poems. Mostly he wrote the preface of the lyrical ballad with Wordsworth. According to Coleridge "Nature" is a powerful thing, it could punish man if he commits any crime against it.
He doesn't view nature as a moral guide or a source of happiness and consolation. His contemplation of Nature has been always accompanied by the awareness of "The ideal in real Nature". Coleridge believed that Natured images carried abstract meanings and he used them in his visionary poems. He, unlikely the poetic vision of Wordsworth about nature he does not
identify"Divinity"of nature.
To Nature
It may indeed be fantasy when I
Essay to draw groom all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety
So let it be; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.
Harshita Singh

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Giovanni Segantini was born in 1858 in Arco, in the Italian part of the Tirolo, into a family with precarious economic conditions. After a few years, Giovanni's mother died and he was entrusted to the care of his stepbrothers, who lived in Milan.

In Milan he led a restless, wandering and solitary adolescence that however brought him closer to the art world. In fact, in Milan, Giovanni attended the courses of the Brera Academy, where he was a Giovanni Bertini's pupil. For him, painting was not just a passion or a profession that brought him notoriety, but it was an important experience on all points of view: a mystical-religious experience where incorporated literary and philosophical inspiration. He was inspired by nature for his painting. The protagonists of his paintings are men with sheep, cows cared for by women. They represent, on one side, a tribute to the tradition of rustic life, and the other side, they become the real protagonists of a symbiotic research with the nature that surrounds them: with snowy peaks, green pastures and blue or cloudy skies. In the end Giovanni Segantini died in 1899 in mount Schfberg.