Background
Guido Mazzoni was born on the 12th of June, 1859, at Florence, Italy.
Guido Mazzoni was born on the 12th of June, 1859, at Florence, Italy.
Mazzoni was educated at Pisa and Bologna.
In 1887 Guido Mazzoni became professor of Italian at Padua, and in 1894 at Florence, where he remained until retirement in 1934.
In 1910 Guido Mazzoni was elected a senator. In 1915 his son was taken prisoner by Austrian forces; the father volunteered for combat duty in exchange, and participated in combat along the Isonzo River. His chief volumes of verse are Versi (1880), Nuove poesie (1886), Poesie (1891), Voci della vita (1893).
Lincean Academy.