In an autobiographical essay, Italo Calvino explained that his father "had been in his youth an anarchist, a follower of Kropotkin and then a Socialist Reformist". Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture.
Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).Īdmired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. Italo Calvino ( / k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ/, also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/, Italian: 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist.
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