Alessandro Quasimodo, actor, director, poet died on Friday in Lombardy where he resided and lived the beautiful house of Palazzago.
He would have turned 86 on May 22nd. He dedicated himself to the work of president of the jury of prestigious literary and poetry prizes and oriented towards poetic research, undertaking in the guard the memory of his father, Nobel prize for literature in 1959 and spreading his work both in Italy and abroad. With Sicily, where he returned every summer, he had a very narrow relationship, he lived a few years in Syracuse and in the summer in Roccalumera in the house of the grandparents: “With my father and mother together, I came only once in Sicily, in Roccalumera – he had told us years ago – in the evening they went down to the beach to read. There was the family house where the dear Aunt Tanina also lived in Syracuse where I was also in Syracuse. Average with Vittorini uncles, I already had a vast culture even if I was a boy, mom read the divine comedy. ” With her mother, the dancer and actress Maria Cumani had a very special relationship, she published a prize on her on her. The relationship with the city of the Strait where the father lived important years for his training, he began: “
A very beautiful fact is linked to Messina. There was a period in which I often came because my mother had been hospitalized following a car accident, she was there for three months in the Cristo Re clinic; In those days, I put myself on the trail of Quasimodo in Messina, I looked for Giorgio La Pira’s uncle, Luigi Occhipinti who was very happy to hear me and said to me: “I have to have a notebook of your father, I am sure Giorgio left him here.” He had found the compositions of “kisses the threshold of your home”, ready for publication “. In Messina Alessandro has returned many times for the important initiatives urged by the provincial councilor for culture Mario D’Agostino by reviving the Quasimodo archive and collaborating with Professor Giovanna Musolino. It was also always at the side of the museum Natale Salvatore Quasimodo di Modica, and, above all, of the Literary Park Salvatore Quasimodo, of Roccalumera, of Roccalumera. of which he was appointed honorary citizen.