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| | Quasimodo, Salvatore
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(Modica, Ragusa 1901 – Naples 1968) He began writing poetry at the very young age of fifteen as he moved from city to city after his father who was a railway-man. He took up several different jobs to support himself. A fundamental figure in his youth was Monsenior Rampolla del Tindaro who taught him Latin and Grek. In the thirties Quasimodo lived in Florence with his brother –in-law Elio Vittorini. There he met Eugenio Montale and the group of writers of ‘Solaria’ in which he published his first poems “Acque e Terre” (1930). It was with his “Oboe sommerso” (1932) that Quasimodo became a representative of the hermetic current. In 1934 he moved to Milan to work for the weekly magazine ‘Tempo’ and also taught at the conservatory. Though he did not actively participate in the Resistance he approached politics through his writings. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1959. His poem before the war mostly described his home land, Sicily, portaying it a the lost Paradise, while his later works mainly focused on the topic of war and the social issue. He also translated “Lirici Greci” in 1940 | | |
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