Faculty of Arts
- Ama Ata Aidoo
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- Naguib Mahfouz
- Alessandro Manzoni
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- Carole Satyamurti
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- Ivan Turgenev
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Wang Wei
Giuseppe Ungaretti was born in Egypt in 1888 to Italian parents. He returned to Italy in 1912 before going on to study in Paris where he associated with members of the avant-garde movement, including Picasso and Apollonaire, and commenced writing poetry. He returned to Italy in 1914 to fight in the war, an experience that had a profound effect on his first collection of poetry which was printed in 1916. After the war he returned to Rome, working there until 1936. During this time he was one of the leading exponents of the Hermetic movement in which poetry was stripped of all narrative or descriptive function in order to be a pure, albeit bleak, reflection of the human condition.
From 1936 to 1942 he taught at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil, returning to Rome in 1942 where he was Professor of modern Italian literature at the University of Rome until his retirement. He died in 1970.
