Corrado Govoni
Corrado Govoni was born in 1884 in Tamara, Italy. He is considered the father of the literary movement of Crepuscularism, literally meaning “Twilight,” and concerning itself with humble subjects, melancholy, and introspection. He also wrote novels, stories, and plays. He died near Rome in 1965.
Reading List
Closed Manor
translated from the Italian by Paula Bohince In the Roman countryside I know a manor closed and abandoned from time immemorial, secret and closed off as the heart of a poet who lives in forced solitude. A hedge surrounds it, a wall of bitter boxwood and the shade of a pine forest. […]