Vasco Pratolini

Vasco Pratolini (died 1991) was born in Florence on 19 October 1913, into a working-class family. He worked at various trades from childhood and was self-taught, through reading. In 1938 he founded the review Campo di Marte with the poet Alfonso Gatto, then settled in Rome, where he took part in the Resistance during the war. He collaborated on the screenplays of many films, including those of Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti, and died in Rome on 12 January 1991.

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• NovelA Tale of Poor LoversCronache di poveri amantiVasco Pratolini · 1947Literature