意大利 共和國時期
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1883年三月9日～
1957年八月26日)
翁貝爾托·薩巴（Umberto Saba，1883-1957)，意大利詩人、小說傢，出生於地中海邊的港口城市的裏雅斯特（Trieste，時屬奧匈帝國）。薩巴一生經歷艱辛，其母是猶太人，出生前就與母親一同被其父拋棄。一戰時曾從軍，二戰時受法西斯迫害，輾轉流徙，受到詩人翁加雷蒂和蒙塔萊的友誼的保護。他的詩也受到隱逸派的影響，但又獨具一格。這裏的詩選譯自英意對照本《太陽的黑暗:薩巴詩選》(The Dark of the Sun),英譯者為剋裏斯托弗·米利斯（Christopher Millis）。
Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 26 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 nom de plume "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.