Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Sicily in 1901 and died in Naples in 1968. A poet, critic, and translator, his collections include Poesie (1938), Giorno dopa giorno (1948) and Il falso e vero verde (1956). He was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1959.
Salvatore Quasimodo
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)