Scipio Slataper

Scipio Slataper (* July 14, 1888 in Trieste, † December 3, 1915 in Podgora Gorizia ) was an Italian writer. One of his best known works is My Karst.

Life

Scipio Slataper was born on 14 July 1888 in Trieste, which was part of Austria -Hungary at the time, as the son of a Slovenian father and an Italian mother. After his schooling in Trieste Slataper studied philology in Florence. In Florence he worked for the newspaper La Voce, which was published by Giuseppe Prezzolini. Slataper, who was a follower of the Italian unification movement ( irredentism ) and the connection of Trieste to Italy demanded, wrote some articles for the newspaper, including five letters in which he was critical of the Trieste 20th-century society.

Slataper held his life in close contact with his hometown and was a lively exchange with other Trieste writers and poets such as Umberto Saba, Giani Stuparich and his wife Elody Oblath.

In 1910 he retired after the suicide of his girlfriend, Anna Pulitzer, in the village Ocizla in the Slovenian municipality of Hrpelje - Kozina and began his work My karst, which was published in 1912 in Florence and would be his only book publication.

In the same year of publication Slataper moved to Hamburg to teach at the University of Hamburg Italian. When Italy 1915 Austria - Hungary declared war Slataper returned to Italy and volunteered for the Italian military service. Slataper fell on 3 December 1915 at the age of 27 in the fourth battle of the Isonzo in Gorizia.

Benjamin Crémieux translated into French My Karst 1921, which Slataper became known in Europe in the 1920s.

Works

• My Karst. ( " Il Mio Carso "). Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85129-313-4 ( lyrical autobiography, 1912).