Umberto Saba

Umberto Saba – February evening / Sera di febbraio

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), Figures in a Moonlit Lane After Rain February evening, the moon appears. The avenue remains sunlit, though evening has begun to fall. Indifferent youths will gather here, scatter toward small aims. And it’s the thought of death that helps us, after all, to live. Sera di febbraio, spunta la luna. Nel …

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Umberto Saba – After sadness / Dopo la tristezza

Guglielmo Ciardi, Canal Grande, 1889 This bread tastes of a memory, chewed in this poor tavern where the harbor is most littered and deserted. And I savor the beet’s bitterness, seated, on the way back home, facing the cloud-topped mountains and the lighthouse. My spirit, having vanquished one of its torments, observes with new eyes …

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