Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani · Arts & Literature
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1916, Bologna, Italy — 2000, Rome, Italy
Italy (Ferrara · Rome)
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Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist and poet best known for 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis', a novel about a Jewish family in Ferrara under Italy's Fascist racial laws, later filmed by Vittorio De Sica. As an editor he first brought Lampedusa's 'The Leopard' to print. An Italian Jew active in the anti-Fascist Resistance, he was Jewish.
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