5 Euros Giovanni Pascoli

San Marino issued this piece in 2012 to mark the centenary of Giovanni Pascoli's death — he died in April 1912 in Bologna, having spent his final years as chair of Italian literature at the city's university, the same post once held by Carducci, whom Pascoli succeeded. A socialist in his youth who was briefly imprisoned in 1879 for his political activities, Pascoli later became an ardent Italian nationalist, most memorably articulated in his 1911 prose-poem "La grande proletaria si è mossa," delivered in support of the Libyan campaign.