During the interwar period, Ungaretti worked as a journalist with Benito Mussolini (whom he met during his socialist accession), as well as a foreign-based correspondent for "Il Popolo d'Italia" and "Gazzetta del Popolo". While briefly associated with the Dadaists, he developed "Hermeticism" as a personal take on poetry. After spending several years in Brazil, he returned home during World War II, and was assigned a teaching post at the University of Rome, where he spent the final decades of his life and career.