Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Biography
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923, where his father Mario and his mother Eva Mameli were studying the local flora. After few years they moved to Sanremo. Italo attended schools in this town and then he followed the partisans. After the Second World War he started working at the publishing house “Einaudi” in Turin, and in 1947 he published his first novel, “Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno”.
He continued to set his novels and tales in the Ligurian Riviera: “Ultimo viene il corvo”, “L’entrata in guerra”, “Il barone rampante”, “La formica argentina”, “La speculazione edilizia”, “La strada di San Giovanni” and many others. At first he moved to Paris, and then to Rome, but Sanremo, as he said, was always in his works.
He died in a hospital in Siena in 1985, when he was famous all over the world. He also wrote: “Marcovaldo”, “Le Cosmicomiche”, “La nuvola di smog”, “Ti con zero”, “Il castello dei destini incrociati”, Le città invisibili”, “Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore”, “Palomar”, “Lezioni americane”.
Bibliography
I. Calvino, “Interview with Maria Corti”, “Saggi 1945-1985”, edited by M. Barenghi, “I Meridiani”, Mondadori, Milan 1995
I. Calvino, “Ultimo viene il corvo”, in “Romanzi e racconti”, edited by M. Barenghi and B. Falcetto, “I Meridiani”, Mondadori, Milan 1991
I. Calvino, “Autobiografia di uno spettatore”, in “La strada di San Giovanni”, Mondadori, Milan 1990
I. Calvino, “L’esattezza e il caso (per Tommaso Landolfi)” in “Saggi”, …
D. Cossu, “Italo Calvino anni diciotto”, in “Civitas Sancti Romuli”, 1985
I. Calvino, “Le notti dell’UNPA”, in “Romanzi e racconti”, …
I. Calvino, “Un pomeriggio, Adamo”, in “Romanzi e racconti”, …
I. Calvino, “La speculazione edilizia”, in “Romanzi e racconti”, …
I. Calvino, “Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno”, in “Romanzi e racconti”, …
