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The Pursuit of Happiness – Part 3. Posted by on Mar 21, 2014

Here’s a poem by the Italian poetess Ada Negri (1870 – 1945), which reflects the phrase ‘Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero’, ‘seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future’ (Horace, 65 – 8 BC), quoted by Geoff in part 1 of this series. I feel an affinity for the message in…

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Piove di Ada Negri Posted by on Nov 27, 2012

Poet and writer, Ada Negri was born in Lodi (Lombardia) in 1870. Her father, a coachman, died when she was only one year old, and her mother worked as a weaver in a factory. Ada recounts in her autobiography “Stella Mattutina”  (Morning Star), published in 1921, how she spent many years of her lonely childhood…

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