Umberto Saba
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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
Umberto Saba, 1951
Saba as a child
Saba (left) receiving his honorary doctorate from the University of Rome in 1953
Virgilio Giotti
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Virgil Schönbeck, known by his pen name Virgilio Giotti, was an Italian poet writing both in Italian and in the Triestine dialect. Giotti's poetry "which is not so much linked to the vernacular tradit
Umberto Saba
…agent. As a young man, he was of a shy and solitary character, with just a few friends, among whom were his cousin Giorgio Fano and Triestine poet Virgilio Giotti. In 1900 he began composing poetry, signing his work "Umberto Chopin Poli." In January 1903 Saba travelled to Pisa to study archaeology, German and…
Portrait of Giotti