Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini was an Italian writer and journalist, author of novels, poetry, and essays.
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini
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Umberto Saba was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the
Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini
…Gambini met Richard Hughes in 1927, as the English writer was travelling in Istria, and received literary advice from him. He became friends with Umberto Saba in 1929 in Trieste. He left Capodistria soon after to study law in Milan and Turin, where he graduated in 1937 from the University of Turin. In 1932…
Umberto Saba, 1951
Saba as a child
Saba (left) receiving his honorary doctorate from the University of Rome in 1953