Umberto Saba [SEP] occupation
Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 26 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the "nom de plume" "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in Trieste. He suffered from depression for all of his adult life.
Life and career.
′′ Songbook, The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba ′′ translated by George Hochfield and Leonard Nathan, Yale University Press, 2008. Paperback edition, 2011.
Studies:
- "La gallina di Saba", M. Lavagetto, Torino, Einaudi, 1989
- "Gli umani amori. La tematica omoerotica nell'opera di Umberto Saba", M. Jattoni Dall'Asén, Reading, The Italianist, n.1, 2004
External links.
- English translation of two poems at "Guernica"
- English translation of Saba's "