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Severino Ferrari (March 26, 1856, Molinella – December 24, 1905, Pistoia) was an Italian poet and literary critic.

Biography
He was born in San Pietro Capofiume (a small town in the municipality of Molinella), in the district of Alberino, the son of doctor Luigi Ferrari and Giuseppina Sarti, sister of the Bolognese sculptor Diego Sarti.

Although endowed with an originality of his own, Severino Ferrari was continually compared (with disadvantageous results for him) to Giovanni Pascoli, whom he met in 1873 following a request for some Latin repetitions. A lifelong fraternal friendship developed between Pascoli and Ferrari.

In the summer of 1876 he met Giosuè Carducci. He became his student at the University of Bologna and with the master edited the annotated edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere.