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Elio Vittorini

Died in 1966

Elio Vittorini (died 1966) was born in Syracuse on 23 July 1908, the son of a railwayman. He left Sicily young, worked on building sites, then settled in Florence, where he was a printer's proofreader. He translated many American and English novelists. Expelled from the Fascist Party in 1937 and arrested in 1943, he took part in the Resistance, edited the review Il Politecnico after the war, then founded Il Menabò with Italo Calvino in 1959. He died in Milan on 12 February 1966.

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