Born May 3, 1917· Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
† Died January 25, 2003
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Emerging from a modest upbringing in Reggio Calabria-where he lost his railway-worker father at ten and later moved to Rome-Trieste earned a literature degree, briefly secured an ethnology scholarship to Boston, and entered the national film school before wartime service placed him in a propaganda unit and eventually led to his desertion in 1944. After debuting as a playwright in 1945, he shifted…
