Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe uŋɡaˈretti]; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti, an English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, was published in 1975. Ungaretti taught contemporary Italian literature at the University of Rome from 1942 to 1957.
Though reflecting the experimental attitude of the Futurists, Ungaretti’s poetry developed in a coherent and original direction, as is apparent in Allegria di naufragi (1919; “Gay Shipwrecks”), which shows the influence of Giacomo Leopardi and includes revised poems from Ungaretti’s first volume.
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian poet, renowned for his concise, impactful verse. Associated with the hermetic movement, his works reflect themes of war, loss, and human suffering, particularly influenced by his experiences in World War I.
Appunto di italiano contenente la biografia in sintesi di Giuseppe Ungaretti e riassunto breve e semplice su poetica e opere.
Ungaretti’s formal education began at Alexandria’s Swiss School where he became acquainted with Symbolist poetry, in particular with Baudelaire, Mallarme and Rimbaud.
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La poesia dell'ultimo Ungaretti si colloca accanto alle voci più nude della desolazione, come quella di Celan, che tradurrà mirabilmente La Terra Promessa (Das verheissene Land) e il Taccuino del Vecchio (Das Merkbuch des Alten).
He published The War in 1919 and married a Frenchwoman, having a daughter by her a few years later. For a while, Ungaretti dabbled with different movements including Dadaism before returning to Italy where he joined the Foreign Office in Rome.