Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968) was born in Modica, in Sicily, on 20 August 1901, the son of a station master. His father was sent to Messina after the earthquake of 1908. He abandoned his studies in Rome for lack of money and worked as a surveyor and draughtsman. In 1929, his brother-in-law Elio Vittorini drew him to Florence, where he joined the Hermetic movement. He then taught Italian literature at the Milan conservatory, translated the Greek lyric poets and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. He died in Naples in June 1968.

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• PoetryEd è subito seraSalvatore Quasimodo · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature