born Aug. 20, 1901, Modica, Italy died June 14, 1968, Naples Italian poet, critic, and translator. He spent 10 years as an engineer for the Italian government while writing poetry in his spare time. He gradually became a leader of Hermeticism after the publication of his first poetry collection, Waters and Land (1930). After World War II his social convictions shaped his work, beginning with Day After Day (1947). He published an astonishing range of translations, edited anthologies, and wrote essays, including those in The Poet and the Politician (1960). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
v. born March 25, 1769, Naples, Kingdom of Naples died Aug. 10, 1821, Milan, Austrian Habsburg domain Italian dancer and choreographer. He studied dance with his father and toured in Spain (1788) and Vienna (1793-95, 1799-1803), where he began to choreograph works in a style synthesizing dance and mime, similar to Jean-Georges Noverre's ballet d'action, which he called "coreodramma." He created more than 40 works, including The Creatures of Prometheus (1801), Gli strelizzi (1809), Otello (1818), and The Titans (1819). In 1811 he became ballet master at La Scala in Milan, where he promoted the development of ballet in Italy