Clemente Rèbora

Clemente Rèbora (1885–1957) was a child of the Risorgimento; his father fought alongside Garibaldi and raised him according to secular, Mazzinian ideals. But a few years after publishing his second volume of verse, Canti anonimi (Anonymous songs, 1922), of which “Image Tensed” is the final poem, he converted to Catholicism, even- tually becoming a Rosminian priest.