Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti (who died in 1970) was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 February 1888, into a family that had come from the Lucca region; his father had worked on the Suez Canal. He came to Paris in 1912, where he associated with Apollinaire. A infantry soldier from 1915, he fought in the trenches. He later joined the Fascist party, taught in São Paulo, then at the University of Rome from 1942. He died in Milan, in the night of 1 to 2 June 1970.

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• PoetryThe Buried HarbourIl Porto SepoltoGiuseppe Ungaretti · 1916Literature