Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in 1923 in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, where his Italian parents, both botanists, were working, and the family returned to Sanremo, on the Italian Riviera, when he was a small child. He began studying agriculture at the University of Turin. During the Second World War he joined the Italian Resistance against the Germans and the Fascists, an experience he drew on in his first novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947). After the war he studied literature and worked for many years for the publisher Einaudi in Turin. His trilogy Our Ancestors includes The Baron in the Trees, about a boy who climbs into the trees and never comes down. He collected and retold Italian Folktales (1956). Later books became more playful and experimental, including Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, in which Marco Polo describes imaginary cities to Kublai Khan, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), about a reader trying to finish a novel. He lived for years in Paris and died in Siena in 1985. His essay collection Why Read the Classics? appeared after his death.

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Faith: Raised by freethinking parents without religious education; he described himself as an atheist. Source: Wikipedia