297:, Giotti was an employee at the Comune di Trieste, and later at the Maggiore Hospital in Trieste, where he worked until the end of his life. In the 1920s his daughter Tanda married the antifascist Emilio Quarantotto, with whom she had a daughter, Vittorina, and followed her husband to the Tremiti Islands and to Chiaromonte. His other son Paolo started military service in 1937 but was accused of antifascism and sent to the Tremiti Islands for a year of internment, which was a hard blow for Giotti, although his son was released in 1938 for good behavior. Giotti, who in 1941 lost his mother Emilia, worked so that his son Paolo may set out to the
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331:, who married his sister Maria. However, when Giorgio left his sister for the writer Anna Curiel, Maria committed suicide, taking her sick child with her. Facing such tragedies, Giotti always kept a calm and sober attitude. He didn't share Saba's passion for psychoanalysis, and his relationship with Saba deteriorated during the 1930s, up to when they even avoided to meet.
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Giotti's dialect is a dialect which, while remaining natural, is not vernacular but intellectualistic and seems to contrast with the character of its themes linked to the daily life of a quite internalized
Trieste. Unlike Svevo and Saba, Giotti's Trieste is not the Habsburg port of Central Europe but
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to act as an interpreter. His son did depart in
February 1942, and his brother Franco followed him in December. Both his sons were captured, and died in January 1943. Giotti kept hoping until January 1946, when the news of Paolo's death finally reached him. Thereafter, keeping his sobriety and
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to escape the
Hapsburg draft and for several years was a commercial traveler, mainly travelling to Switzerland. In 1912 he met the Muscovite noblewoman Nina Schekotoff, who soon became his partner and with whom he had three children: little Tanda (Natalia), and Paolo and Franco.
181:, uses the dialect to give more intimate vibration to its lyrical motifs, now inspired by a loving or familiar, serene or painful intimacy, now by nature, by the landscape, by the minute life of his city; in forms that from the musicality of the
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rather a simple picture of affections and people: its "Triestinity", alien to the search for the picturesque and folkloric, lies in the use of the dialect and in the setting, background for poetry of high lyrical tension.
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In May 1919 he returned to
Trieste, opening a small newsagent selling newspapers and books. He published prose and above all poetry for many magazines, including
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Si pesa dopo morto: atti del convegno internazionale di studi per il cinquantenario della scomparsa di
Umberto Saba e Virgilio Giotti
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He has been credited as one of the great
Italian poets of the 20th century, and is regarded as the greatest Triestine dialect poet.
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November 1948, he was acknowledged as the greatest among the poets writing in dialect. He was consecrated as such by
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In his verses the quatrain of partially rhythmic hendecasyllables with typical metric inversions prevails (
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Quanto hai lavorato per me, caro
Fortuna! lettere e amicizia fra Umberto Saba e Aldo Fortuna (1912-1944)
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approach more and more, and with ever greater grace, an epigrammatic essentiality."
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Virgilio Giotti tra "idealizzazione poetica" e lingua della prosa (1920-1926)
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the melodic motifs dominate in his verses, which will bring him closer to
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lucidity, he started writing a diary which was published posthumously as
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Il qualunque altro: intorno ad una poesia di Virgilio Giotti
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dedicated an article to the poet from Trieste in the
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Riccardo Cepach; Umberto Saba; Aldo Fortuna (2007).
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le feste / de Pasqua xe vignude, e vignĂą xe / l'istĂ
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356:from Russian into Italian. In 1937 the critic
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517:delle sue liriche), Florence, Parenti, 1941;
327:, and helped in the formation of philosopher
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805:The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.
692:Virgil Schönbeck at the Italian Encyclopedia
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469:). Typical of Giotti is also the use of
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416:Poesia dialettale del Novecento
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281:and was reported by his friend
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389:Gianfranco Contini
377:Ă©criture d'artiste
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