Umberto Saba was born in 1883 in Austro-Hungarian Trieste. He engaged in various types of employment, including writing for Mussolini’s newspaper Il popolo d’Italia in…
In my last column of 2019 I selected Rocco Scotellaro and included two short poems of his. I wish to share with you two more…
Buon anno ai gatti Ho conosciuto un tale, di Voghera o di Scanno, che voleva fare ai gatti gli auguri di Capodanno. Andando per la…
Giuseppe Ungaretti is one of the major Italian poets of the XX century. He was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1888 and died in Milan…
Rocco Scotellaro was born in 1923 in the province of Matera, a very disadvantaged area in Southern Italy. It’s worth noting that Matera has come…
