L'allegria

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 Allegria di naufragi ("Merriness of Shipwrecks").

Many of the poems were written in reaction to Ungaretti's experience as a soldier of World War I.

[1] Poems from L'allegria have been translated by Charles Tomlinson.

[2] This article about a collection of written poetry is a stub.