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Vincenzo Cardarelli

Died in 1959

Vincenzo Cardarelli, whose real name was Nazareno Caldarelli (died 1959), was born on 1 May 1887 in Corneto, present-day Tarquinia, in Lazio. He left his native town at seventeen for Rome, where he became a journalist. In 1919, with other writers, he founded the magazine La Ronda, which defended a classical restoration and a return to Leopardi. From 1949 he edited La Fiera letteraria, and he died in Rome on 18 June 1959.

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