Bidspirit auction | Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti - Giuseppe Ungaretti - The pierreries ensoleilles, 1919. An important autographed and signed poetic manuscript, Les pierreries ensoleillées (The Ensoleillé Stones ), seven 4° pages written on the recto side of a stack of ten foolscap sheets, yellowed by age (though the brown ink is perfectly legible). The first page, designed as a title page, contains the dedication and the subtitle ”nouveau cahier de route pour Marthe.” Both this first page and the following pages contain poems from Porto Sepolto in Ungaretti's French translation (with a concordance with the original volume at the bottom, complete with page number): Nostalgie, Actes primaveras et d'autres saisons, La rosée rayonnante, Militaires, Fin Mars, Prairie, De l'aube et nocturne, Déroulement, Errant, La sérénité de ce soir. These texts, first published in Italian in 1918 in the Bologna magazine ”La Raccolta, ” were included in the volume La Guerre , which Ungaretti printed in Paris in 1919, but in a very different form from that shown in our manuscript—one that harks back to Apollinaire's ”calligrammatic” style. On the last page, at the bottom, is the signature and, very Ungaretti-esque, the more complete contact details: Giuseppe Ungaretti, soldier of the 19th Infantry, War Zone, Rome, March, Villa di Garda, April, Camp de Mailly, Paris, May 1918 .