Umberto Saba (1883-1957)
Umberto Saba was an Italian poet and novelist, owner of an antiquarian bookshop in Trieste. He struggled with depression for all of his adult life.
Month: December 2019
Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907)
Giosuè Carducci was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetry is inspired by the classical tradition, such as Dante, stilnovo style, Petrarch and Foscolo.
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist and poet, also actor and theatre director. He is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde and he is best known for conceptualizing a Theatre of Cruelty.
Dino Campana (1885-1932)
Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. He only published a book of poetry, Canti Orfici (Orphic Songs). His wild and erratic personality and his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo set him as an Italian example of a poète maudit.
Pedro Salinas (1891-1951)
Pedro Salinas was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of ’27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet (from Genoa), also writer, editor and translator. He had received honorary degrees from several universities and had been appointed in the Italian Senate.He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. His poetry explores solitude, nature and the “little” and “insignificant” things, using the concept of the objective correlative.