Alfonso GattoAlfonso Gatto (1909-1976) was among Italy's foremost 20th-century poets. Together with Mario Luzi, Vittorio Sereni and others, he belonged to the second generation of Italian hermetic poets--after Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale and Savatore Quasmodo. All were influenced by the French Symbolists. The selection here includes prewar, war and postwar poetry taken from ten collections, including Poesie d'amore/Love Poems (1941-1949) and La storia delle vittime/History of the Victims (1962-1965). In 1976 Gatto met an untimely death in a car accident near Rome. His final book of poems, Desinenze/Endings, was published posthumously. Read More Read Less