Cannizzaro, Tommaso

From Philosopedia

Cannizzaro, Tommaso (1837—1916) An Italian poet, Cannizzaro translated Omar Khayyam and the sonnets of Camoens. His Tramonti contains many rationalist poems, as in the ode on the death of Victor Hugo: “Inexorable enemies of truth,/Ye priests and kings and brothers of the dark.” {RAT}