Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Salvatore QuasimodoAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: italian
- Born: August 20, 1901
- Died: June 14, 1968
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