Lambeaux de murs et de mots La Grande Guerre de Giuseppe Ungaretti

For Ungaretti, an Italian who joined up voluntarily on the Austrian fronts, then the French, the war was an extreme and decisive experience: “I was born to poetry in the trenches”. Born in Alexandria to Tuscan parents, he grew up between languages but he invented a naked, hermetic poetry in order to express his cohesion with the soldiers and his nostalgic empathy for nature.