 The Italian poet Giovanni <unk> ( 1855 – 1912 ) stated that his long lyric poem L <unk> <unk> was an attempt to reconcile the portrayals of Ulysses in Dante and Tennyson with <unk> 's prophecy that Ulysses would die " a mild death off the sea " . <unk> 's Ulysses leaves Ithaca to <unk> his epic voyage rather than begin another . 
