"L'Allegria", previously called "L'Allegria di Naufragi", is a decisive moment of the recent history of Italian literature: Ungaretti revises with novel ideas the poetic style of the "poètes maudits" (especially the broken verses without punctation marks of Guillaume Apollinaire's "Calligrammes" and the equality between verse and a single word), connecting it with his experience of death and pain as a soldier at war. The hope of brotherhood between all the people is expressed strongly, together with the desire of searching for a renovated "harmony" with the universe, impressive in the famous verses of "Mattina":