ItalyStories.com Salvatore Quasimodo stands among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose voice changed profoundly as Europe itself changed around him. Born in Modica, Sicily, in 1901, he grew up in a landscape of stone…
ItalyStories.com Alda Merini occupies a singular place in modern Italian literature. Poet, memoirist, performer, public personality, and survivor of long periods of psychiatric hospitalization, she transformed suffering into a language at once lyrical, ironic, sensual, religious, and fiercely personal. Her…
The Literary Voice of Sardinia: Nobel Prize in Literature Grazia Deledda became one of the great voices of Italian literature by writing from a place many cultural elites of her time considered peripheral. She was born in Sardinia, educated only…