This paper examines articles and essays in which Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about Umberto Saba. Pasolini emphasizes that Saba belongs to the literary tradition of Trieste, analyses his themes and his poetics, his specific poetical language, indicates the place of Saba in Italian literature. Pasolini played a significant role in ensuring that Saba’s work received a fair evaluation. At the same time Pasolini’s texts about Saba prove that he was not only a great writer, poet and film director, but also a talented philologist and literary critic.