quasimodo

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Definition von quasimodo im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A surfing trick performed whilst crouching; The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday; the main character in the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. He is an ugly hunchback (=someone whose back has a large raised part at the top) whose job is to ring the bells in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
Salvatore Quasimodo: 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

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käzimōdō

/kazēˈmōdō/ /kæziːˈmoʊdoʊ/

() From the Latin mass - quasi modo geniti infantes

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