Professione: Poet
Luogo: Venezia-Giulia
Autore: Unknown

Giulio Camber Barni (Trieste, 23th December 1891 – Liubovna, 24th November 1941). He was born in a family native from Dalmatia, Camber studied at the primary and secondary school in Trieste and went to the University of Wien, at the faculty of Law and Philosophy.
When World War I broke out, he was conscripted into Austrian army but he defects and runs away to Italy, where he meets his friend Enrico Elia, with whom he volunteered for 2nd Infantry Regiment stationed in Udine, taking the surname Barni.
He was twice wounded so he gets the War Cross, a silver medal ( Oslavia, 3rd November 1915) and a bronze one for military valor (Soupir, France, 4th October 1918), At the end of the war he is in Trieste like officer for the propaganda of the Third Army.
After the discharge he goes to Naples where he graduates in Law, then he goes back to his city where he works as lawyer. Despite he could claim a disability due to the war ( the mouth had been injured by gas) Camber refuses the pass of maimed; in the camp of veterans he helps Veterans Association and Company of Julian and Istrian Volunteers.
He collaborates with the republican newspaper “The Emancipation” where he publishes in twelve episodes, between 1920 and 1921, his war poems titled La Buffa (Funny- “infantry is funny…”); in 1935 Virgilio Giotti realizes a collection of those poems; exemplary verse, as Giani Stuparich wrote “…of epic narration spontaneously sprouted from the trenches, to collocate near the most beautiful soldiers’ songs” of the first World War.
Due to political conflicts between the world of ex-combatants and Trieste Prefect Carlo Tiengo, the collection was immediately confiscated.
In 1938 he was recalled up to military service for a refresher training, then he was upgraded from Captain to Major.
When World War II broke out he was sent to Bologna as judge of Military Court of the 8th Army, but he wasn’t at his ease in judging soldiers, so he asked to be sent to the front.
Stationed in Albania with the divisions of Pinerolo and Ferrara he becomes, lately, Captain of the 6th Border Guard Battalion (4th section)  of Korcia where he dies because of a fall from his horse. Anima di Frontiera (Soul from the frontier), a collection of lyrics composed between 1912 and 1915 is posthumously published.