{"pk":40463,"title":"Come un fulgore azzurro: Umberto Saba and the Verdian Sound of Italy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article probes the political contours of the fascination that the Italian poet Umberto Saba (1883-1957) had for the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901).  Born in Trieste in the late 19th century, when the city was still a province of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Saba aspired to participate in the Italian literary tradition. Saba profoundly identified with Verdi, whom he saw as a symbol of Italy itself. Through a close analysis of the textual and intellectual influence of the composer on Saba's poetry, I argue that Verdi is decisive in Saba's struggle to shape his Italian national identity.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Saba"},{"word":"Verdi"},{"word":"Risorgimento"},{"word":"Opera"},{"word":"music"},{"word":"Poetry"},{"word":"Politics"}],"section":"Sound and Sense","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nh1s4c1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mattia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Acetoso","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston College","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-02-18T01:02:52Z","date_accepted":"2013-02-18T01:02:52Z","date_published":"2014-03-03T05:02:24Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40463/galley/30416/download/"}]}