Vittorini, Elio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...vet-tore ne, 1908 66, Italian novelist, b. Syracuse, Sicily. Between 1934 and 1941 Vittorini translated the works of D. H. Lawrence, Poe, Faulkner, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and others. His first novel, In Sicily (1938, tr. 1949), caused his imprisonment...