The culture ministry has bought a
body of correspondence by great 20th century modernist poet
Giuseppe Ungaretti as well as three of great 19th century
Romantic poet and thinker Giacomo Lepardi 'doleful' letters,
Culture Minister Alberto Bonasoli announced on Friday.
He stressed that "the precious signed testimony from the two
great authors of Italian literature will soon find a place in
the national libraries in Rome for Ungaretti and in Naples for
Leopardi".
The two sets of papers, which would otherwise have gone to
auction, were bought in private negotiations for 125,000 euros
and 100,000 respectively.
photo: statue of Leopardi in home town of Recanati in Marche
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