1959
Salvatore Quasimodo – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Poet and the Politician “The night is long that never finds the day”. These are Shakespeare’s words in Macbeth, and they help us to define the poet’s condition. At first, the reader appears to the poet in his solitude as an image with the face and the gestures…
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Salvatore Quasimodo – Bibliography
Bibliography
Works in Italian Acque e terre – Florence : Solaria, 1930 Oboe sommerso. – Genoa : Circoli, 1932 Odore di eucalyptus, ed altri versi. – Florence : Antico Fattore, 1933 Erato e Apollion. – Milan : Scheiwiller, 1935 Poesie. – Milan : Primi Piani, 1938 Ed è subito sera. – Milan : Mondadori, 1942 Con…
moreJaroslav Heyrovsky – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Jaroslav Heyrovsky – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Jaroslav Heyrovsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Having obtained the highest scientific distinction to be laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1959, I have the pleasant duty to thank most cordially to the Nobel Foundation and to the Royal…
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