Lucio Piccolo

Lucio Piccolo (died 1969), Baron of Calanovella, was born in Palermo on 27 October 1901. He lived on the family estate at Capo d'Orlando, on the north coast of Sicily, with his mother, his brother and his sister. A cousin of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, he corresponded with Yeats. In 1954, at fifty-three, he had nine poems privately printed and sent them to Eugenio Montale, who brought him to public notice and wrote the preface to his next collection. He died on 26 May 1969.

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• PoetryThe Collected Poems of Lucio PiccoloPlumeliaLucio Piccolo · 1967Literature