About Scipio Slataper Scipio Slataper (1888–1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Books by Scipio Slataper My Karst and My City and Other Essays by (author) Scipio Slataper edited by Elena Coda translated by Nicholas Benson