Mario Luzi

Mario Luzi (died in 2005) was born on 20 October 1914 in Castello, near Florence, the city where he lived almost all his life. There he defended in 1936 a thesis on François Mauriac, published his first collection in 1935 and was classed among the Hermetic poets. A secondary-school teacher from 1938, he taught French language and literature at the University of Florence from 1955. Put forward for the Nobel Prize from 1991, he was appointed senator for life in 2004 and died in Florence on 28 February 2005.

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• PoetryNel magmaMario Luzi · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature