Umberto Saba

Umberto Saba (died 1957), born Umberto Poli in Trieste on 9 March 1883, was the son of Felicita Rachele Cohen, who was Jewish, and Ugo Edoardo Poli; he was raised by a Slovene nurse. In 1909 he married Carolina Wölfler, whom he called Lina, and from 1919 he ran a second-hand bookshop in Trieste. In 1929 he began psychoanalysis with Edoardo Weiss. Threatened by the anti-Jewish laws, he hid in Florence in 1943. He died in Gorizia on 25 August 1957.

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