Umberto da Montereale

Note from Umberto Saba to Attilio Hortis, [undated]
The brief thank you “to the illustrious fellow citizen for the encouragement you have given him”, signed Umberto da Montereale, is prior to 1911, when the poet definitively adopted the pseudonym Umberto Saba.

Giovanni Comisso, [Portrait of Umberto Saba], undated pencil drawing
The sketch was held in Anita Pittoni’s Archive in an envelope addressed to “Sig. Prof. Stuparich, Liceo Dante, Trieste”.