born in Alexandria, Egypt on 8 February 1888 (but was denounced as anagrafe born Feb. 10, and always celebrated his birthday on that date) parents of Lucca, who had emigrated and for work and for their anarchist ideas. His father, a laborer with the excavation of the Suez Canal, died two years after the birth of the poet. His mother was a baker. Can still do higher studies in one of the most prestigious schools of Alexandria. In early youth came into contact with the anarchist and socialist groups of Italian immigrants. Law Baudelaire, Leopardi, and Nietzsche.
the death of his father in 1890 due to injury, his mother, Maria Luna, continued to take care of the furnace allowed them to maintain a dignified that his son could attend the École Suisse Jacot.
The love of poetry was born during these years of school and was intensified by the friendships that he shook the Egyptian city, rich in stimuli.
dates back to 1906 meeting with Enrico Pea, his countryman and recently emigrated to Egypt, that drove the young Ungaretti to follow trends and anarchic character with whom he shared the experience of "Red Cabin."
In recent years, through the magazine "Mercure," the young man went to the French literature and, through subscriptions he had with the "Voice", literature Italian thus beginning to read the works of Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Leopardi, Baudelaire and Nietzsche.
Ungaretti In 1912, after a brief period in Cairo, he left Egypt and moved to Paris where he attended classes for two years, in particular those of Bergson, of Bedier and Strowschi, the Sorbonne and the Collège de France .
come into contact with the international art scene knew Apollinaire, with whom he formed a solid friendship, Giovanni Papini, Ardengo Soft, Palazzeschi, Picasso, De Chirico, Modigliani and Braque. Invited by Papini, Soft and Palazzeschi Lacerba began collaboration with the journal issue on which, in 1915, its first poems. In France
Ungaretti filtered previous experience, eliminating waste. After a few publications on Lacerba, the war was for the time of the discovery of humanity Ungaretti poor, sad day. This experience in the Port Buried Joy of Shipwrecks and it is the first document of a new poem that, after D'Annunzio, to start from scratch, from the word naked and isolated.
In 1914 he returned to Italy where he participated in the interventionist and the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered in the 19th Infantry Regiment. Fighting on the Carso and after this experience he wrote the poems collected by his friend Hector Serra, will be printed in 80 Printing of copies at Udine in 1916 under the title The port buried. Collaborated at that time even the newspaper in the trenches and on.
In the spring of 1918 the regiment to which he belonged Ungaretti went to fight in France in the Champagne area and at the end of the war, the poet remained in Paris, first as a correspondent of the fascist newspaper "The People of Italy", and later used to 'press office of the Italian Embassy.
was printed in Paris in 1919 a collection of poems The French wars that will be included in the second collection of poems published in Florence Joy of shipwrecks in the same year and in 1920 the poet married Jeanne Dupoix with whom he had two children, and Ninon Antoinette.
In 1921 he moved to Rome and worked in the Foreign Ministry Press Office. The twenties marked a change in private life and cultural life of the poet. He adhered fully to fascism by signing the Manifesto of the Fascist intellectuals in 1925 and in 1928 had a genuine religious conversion.
In these years he carried out an intense activity on the French and Italian newspapers and magazines and made several trips in Italy and abroad to keep some conferences to win various awards official. These were also the years of the aging of the work a sense of time, whose first publication took place on "Italy literary" and "Commerce". Meanwhile, the port was reprinted in 1923 buried in La Spezia with a foreword by Benito Mussolini.
From 1931 he was appointed special envoy for The Journal of the people and went to Egypt, Corsica, Holland and southern Italy as the result of collecting experiences of the poor in the city that will be published in The desert and after 1949 and which will come out only in 1961.
In 1933, with the publication of the collection The feeling of the time the poet reached the height of his fame.
In 1936, during a trip to South America was invited to teach Italian literature at the 'University of Sao Paulo and decided to move with his family in Sao Paulo where he stayed until 1942 and where he died in 1939 his son-Antoinette, at the age of nine years, ill-treated for appendicitis, leaving the poet in a state of great pain that we suffer in many of the poems collected in The pain of 1947 and A cry in the 1952 and landscapes.
Ungaretti returned to Italy in 1942 and was named Academic of Italy and renowned professor of modern and contemporary literature at the 'University of Rome, which he kept until 1958 and then - as "out of role" until 1965. Around his desk were formed a few intellectuals who later distinguished themselves in important cultural activities and for significant academic careers, as Leone Piccioni, Luigi Silor, Mario Petrucciani, Barlozzini Guido, Raphael Brignetti, Ornella Sobrero, Elio Filippo Accrocca. In Italy he became known with his intense readings of poetry, they discover that the poetic vocation to Elio Fiore. Fallen
the fascist regime, the poet adapts to the new climate after the war and was always respected by all and, while considering himself a poet officer, was always helpful and attentive to accommodate the new nascent literary echoes.
collected and published other books and devoted himself enthusiastically to those trips that gave way to spread his poetry everywhere taking lectures, readings of his poems and winning prizes, such as the Montefeltro Award "in 1960, the Etna-Taormina prize in 1966 and the international prize Oklahoma in the United States that cost him a difficult journey. On the night of 31 December 1969 and 1 January 1970 he wrote the last poem The petrified velvet and published in a series of lithographic day dell'ottantaduesimo birthday of the poet. He died in Milan on the night between 1st and June 2nd. The funeral took place in Rome's Church of San Lorenzo outside the Walls on June 4. Did not attend any official representative of the Italian government.
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