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Franco Fortini

Died in 1994

Franco Fortini, whose real name was Franco Lattes (died 1994), was born in Florence in 1917, to a Jewish lawyer and a Catholic mother, whose name he took to sign his work. During the war, racial persecution made him take refuge in Switzerland, then he joined the Resistance in the Val d'Ossola. After the war, he was a member of the editorial board of Elio Vittorini's Politecnico. A translator of Brecht, Éluard and Goethe, he moved in poetry from hermeticism to a civic and political inspiration, and died in Milan in 1994.

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