Giuseppe Ungaretti

Dear visitor, I was a soldier and poet in the First World War. I am considered a great poet; in my verses I have managed to evoke the essence of the human being overwhelmed but not broken by war, and my connection to Gorizia and the Karst Plateau, one of the places where I fought and which inspired my first collection of poems, "The Buried Port." "The name of Gorizia was not the name of a victory, but the name of a shared suffering ," this was what I observed in 1966 when, now an old man, I returned to Gorizia and the territories where I had fought.