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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (; 20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. Biography Quasimodo was born in Modica, Sicily, into a Sicilian-Greek family. His paternal grandmother, Rosa (''née'' Papandreou), was from Patras, Greece. Quasimodo integrated both of his ancestries in his works, in which he defined himself as a "''Siculo-Greco''" ().Ioli, Giovanna (2002)La Sicilia spiega il mondo: la parola di un siculo greco In: Salvatore Quasimodo nel vento del Mediterraneo: atti del Convegno internazionale, Princeton, 6-7 aprile 2001.-(Biblioteca del Centro novarese di studi letterari; 27)', 1000-1013. " In his biography for Elio Filippo Accrocca, he even sought to relocate his birthplace to Syracu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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