Between 1911-1914 Joyce wrote Giacomo Joyce, an enigmatic text composed of 50 unconnected and irregular fragments

While in Trieste, Joyce and his family moved house ten times

“Written in the Military Depot at Monte Oliveto in the summer of 1907″

This short correspondence is the first known composition by Saba to appear in print.

Friends, contemporaries, kindred in attitude and artistic sensibility.

“I’m now very close to becoming a bibliophile myself”

“We are profound, we become clear again”

“Speaking of names: I have given the Lady’s name to the protagonist of the book I am writing.”

Dublin, December 17th, 1884 – Trieste, June 16th, 1955

James Joyce, Chamber Music, London, Elkin Mathews, 1907;
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2. ed., London, The Egoist Ltd., 1917