Sandro Penna

Sandro Penna (died 1977) was born in Perugia in 1906, into a middle-class family. After a brief spell in Milan as a bookshop clerk, he settled in Rome in 1929 and lived there for almost all his life, working in turn as an accountant, a translator and an art dealer. Umberto Saba supported his first poems, and his first collection appeared at the end of the thirties. He received the Viareggio Prize in 1957 and died in Rome in January 1977.

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• PoetryWithin the Sweet Noise of LifeTutte le poesieSandro Penna · 1970Literature