Umberto Saba

Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba, 1951
Born	Umberto Poli (1883-03-09)9 March 1883 Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Died	25 August 1957(1957-08-25) (aged 74) Gorizia, Italy
Occupation	Novelist, poet
Language	Italian
Genre	Fiction, poetry
Literary movement	Antinovecentismo
Spouse	Carolina (Lina) Wölfler (m. 1909–1956; 1 child)
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Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 25 August 1957) 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 adult life.