Ottavio Profeta
Ottavio Profeta (October 10, 1890 – November 23, 1963) was an Italian poet.
Ottavio Profeta
- Born
- 1890. · Aidone.
- Died
- 1963. · Mascalucia.
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- Kingdom of Italy and Italy.
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- poet, novelist and writer.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Ottavio Profeta was born in Aidone, Italy on October 10, 1890, to Franco and Adele Piazza. After earning a university degree in law and a short public job in Catania, Sicily, he befriended Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana and Luigi Pirandello, and followed their lead in artistically representing the fall of romantic illusions, with a focus on "losers", the poor, and the middle-class, which he viewed as trapped between desperation and disillusionment. He died in Mascalucia in 1963.
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Ottavio Profeta lived from 1890 to 1963 and was a poet, writer and journalist. The birth of Ottavio Profeta is recorded in 1890 in Aidone, and the death in 1963 in Catania.
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• L'amante dell'amore • Nascere • Odia il prossimo tuo • Sicilia Favola vera • De Roberto e Pirandello
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- 1.Dattiloscritto scritto a Mascalucia sull'Etna, nella casa del Sogno, poi stampato da Studio Editoriale Moderno nel 1936
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