Giuseppe Ungaretti

1888 (Alexandria, Egypt)-1970 (Milan). His father moved to Egypt to work on the Suez canal. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he volunteered for the Italian army and fought on the Italian front against Austria-Hungary.

Poet known for his often short poems and vatic utterances, e.g.

Sono un uomo ferito - I am a wounded man.

La tua legge cos'é? - What is your law?

Forse l'uomo e anche indigno di sperare. Perhaps Man is unworthy to hope.

Soldiers
Si sta come

d'autunno

sugli alberi

le foglie

The leaves on the trees look like it's autumn.

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