Contovello umberto saba biography

Umberto Saba was born in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, in 1883.

At the beginning of the ancient road to Contovello and Prosecco, which leads to the Karst, rises up a well-known monument: the Victory lighthouse, opened in.

His mother, Felecita Rachele Coen, was Jewish; his father, Ugo Edoardo Poll, something of a scapegrace, was induced to undertake the experiments of marriage and religious conversion for the sum of 4000 florins. A year later, when Umberto Poli was born, his father was already gone, supposedly in jail for the crime of lese majeste.

The two did not meet for twenty years. The abandoned mother lived in a state of depression until 1921; she is the prototype of the doleful women who appear in Saba's poetry.

Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.

Two main Italian writers were members of the community: Umberto Saba ( ) and Italo Svevo/Ahron Ector Schmitz ().

Umberto Saba was born Umberto Poli on 9 March in the old Jewish ghetto of Trieste.

From Umberto Saba to Italo Svevo, from Margherita Hack to James Joyce, many great minds in history have contributed to making Trieste's cultural landscape.

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Saba never showed any bitterness toward his father and seems to have regarded him as the spark that ignited the flame of poetry in his soul. An important aspect of the childhood that resulted from these inauspicious beginnings was Umberto's being placed for the first four years of his life with a Slovene couple.

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