Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard prewar Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.

Carlo Emilio Gadda was born in Milan in 1893, and he was always intensely Milanese, although late in his life Florence and Rome also became an influence. Gaddas nickname is Il gran Lombardo, The Great Lombard a reference to the famous lines 703 of Paradiso XVII, which predict the protection Dante would receive from Bartolomeo II della Scala of Verona during his exile from Florence Lo primo tuo refugio e l primo ostello sar la cortesia del gran Lombardo che n su la scala porta il santo uccello .

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