L'allegria

("Joy", "Happiness", or better, "Merriness") is a collection of poems published by Giuseppe Ungaretti in 1931. It was an expanded version of a 1919 collection ("Merriness of Shipwrecks"). Many of the poems were written in reaction to Ungaretti's experience as a soldier of World War I.

Poems from have been translated by Charles Tomlinson.

References

Further reading

• Hand, Vivienne, 'Ambiguous Joy: contradictions and tensions in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'allegria<nowiki>'</nowiki>, The Italianist, 16, p.&nbsp;76-116
• Suvini-Hand, Vivienne, Mirage and Camouflage - Hiding behind Hermeticism in Ungaretti's L'Allegria, Troubadour, 2000