1. Alfonso Gatto fell in love with Jole, the daughter of his mathematics teacher, and at the age of 21, he eloped with her to Milan.
10 Facts About Alfonso Gatto
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Alfonso Gatto worked many different jobs: bookshop assistant, college instructor, proofreader, journalist, and teacher.
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In 1941 Alfonso Gatto was appointed professor of Italian literature for "high merits", at the Art School of Bologna, and a special correspondent for the newspaper L'Unita, thus being placed in a primary position for the promotion of literature of communist inspiration.
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Subsequently, Alfonso Gatto abandoned the Italian Communist Party and became a dissident communist.
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Alfonso Gatto died in a car accident on 8 March 1976 at Capalbio in the province of Grosseto.
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Alfonso Gatto is buried in the cemetery of Salerno and on his tomb is engraved his friend Montale's funeral farewell:.
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Alfonso Gatto was one of the most important and active exponents of Hermeticism.
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Alfonso Gatto's language is rarefied and timeless, allusive, and typical of a poetics of "absence" and empty space, rich in melodic motives.
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Alfonso Gatto is thus a poet of nature and instinct, who continuously reinvigorates his poetic form and narrative structure, including in them a lyrical self-analysis and historical sense of participation.
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Alfonso Gatto appeared in Cadaveri eccellenti by Francesco Rosi where he was Nocio and in Caro Michele, by Mario Monicelli, from the novel by Natalia Ginzburg, where he interpreted Michele's father.