Saba and Triestine painter Vittorio Bolaffio

Umberto Saba, To Vittorio Bolaffio and his portrait, [1924]
“This you have painted is my face. | My fatigue, my mortal ardour | rendered by your trembling and frail hand, | dear good Bolaffio, humble and pious painter”

Umberto Saba, Three poems to Bolaffio, [1932]
“On the death of Vittorio, my warm friend, my great poet”

Vittorio Bolaffio, The Poet Umberto Saba, oil on canvas, [1923], reprod.