Died 1957-08-26.
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Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba 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 pen name "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…
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culture · Italian poet and novelist (1883–1957) · poet · writer · essayist · journalist · also Umberto Saba, Saba
Born 9 March 1883 · Died 26 August 1957 · Q451312
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1957· 1 entry
1953· 1 entry
The University of Rome bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate, and he received an award from the Lincean Academy
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded Viareggio Prize (1946).
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Saba was awarded the Viareggio Prize and returned to Trieste where, in the following year, he sparked a vitriolic debate over the future of the city with his article If I were named governor of Trieste
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1943· 1 entry
Saba fled Trieste with his family to Florence, where they moved to eleven different hiding places over the following 12 months, to avoid deportation; after which Lina returned to Trieste and Saba moved to Rome, where he
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1939· 1 entry
Saba sought exemption from the newly proclaimed anti-Jewish laws, but was unwilling to be baptised into the Catholic faith, so the following year he sold the bookshop to his long-time assistant and friend, Carlo Cerne
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1929· 2 entries
His friendship with Saba deteriorated in the 1930s, up to the point when the two even avoided meeting
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Began psychoanalysis under the influential Trieste psychoanalyst Edoardo Weiss, a student of Freud
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1921· 1 entry
(successive, enlarged editions followed, and eventually it grew to contain over four hundred poems, spanning fifty years)
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1919· 2 entries
Returned to Trieste and purchased the Mailänder second-hand bookshop, which he renamed La Libreria Antica e Moderna
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Saba started meeting on a daily basis and collaborating artistically with Giotti, who designed for him the logo of the Libreria Antica e Moderna, edited and illustrated the plaquette for Saba's Cose leggere e vaganti and
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1914· 1 entry
The family moved to Milan, where Saba found work first as a secretary, then as a nightclub manager
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1910· 1 entry
And his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928
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1909· 1 entry
And they had a daughter, Linuccia, the following year
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1905· 1 entry
Travelled to Florence with friends and – upon meeting his father for the first time – changed his pen name to "Umberto da Montereale," after the town of his father's birth
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1900· 1 entry
Began composing poetry, signing his work "Umberto Chopin Poli
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1897· 1 entry
Transferred from the Gymnasium to a commercial college, the Imperial Academy of Commerce and Navigation, and then went to work in the office of a customs agent
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-03-09.
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