Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (died 1985) was born on 15 October 1923 in Santiago de Las Vegas, in Cuba, to an agronomist father and a botanist mother, and grew up in San Remo, in Liguria. He began studies in agronomy before turning to literature, and took part in the Resistance. A member of the Communist Party, he left it after the Soviet intervention in Hungary. He worked for many years for the publisher Einaudi, lived in Paris from 1967 to 1980, joined the Oulipo and died in Siena on 19 September 1985.

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• NovelThe Baron in the TreesIl barone rampanteItalo Calvino · 1957Literature