Italo Calvino
1923 to 1985
11 documented presences
10 places
Quo Fuit places 11 dated presences for Italo Calvino across 10 places, from 1923 to 1985. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Italo Calvino was documented, and when
1923year
Santiago de Las Vegasattested
“Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1923year
Santiagoattested
“Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1941year
University of Turinattested
“In 1941, Calvino enrolled at the University of Turin, choosing the Agriculture Faculty where his father had previously taught courses in agronomy.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1945year
Turinattested
“Calvino settled in Turin in 1945, after a long hesitation over living there or in Milan.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1945year
Milanattested
“Calvino settled in Turin in 1945, after a long hesitation over living there or in Milan.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1954 to 1956period
Italyattested
“In 1954, Giulio Einaudi commissioned his (1956; Italian Folktales) on the basis of the question, "Is there an Italian equivalent of the Brothers Grimm?" For two years, Calvino collated tales found in 19th century collections across Italy…”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1959 to 1960period
United Statesattested
“Despite severe restrictions in the US against foreigners holding communist views, Calvino was allowed to visit the United States, where he stayed six months from 1959 to 1960 (four of which he spent in New York), after an invitation by t…”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1959 to 1960period
New Yorkattested
“Despite severe restrictions in the US against foreigners holding communist views, Calvino was allowed to visit the United States, where he stayed six months from 1959 to 1960 (four of which he spent in New York), after an invitation by t…”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
15 October 1967exact date
Cubaattested
“On 15 October 1967, a few days after Guevara's death, Calvino wrote a tribute to him that was published in Cuba in 1968, and in Italy thirty years later.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
15 October 1967exact date
Italyattested
“On 15 October 1967, a few days after Guevara's death, Calvino wrote a tribute to him that was published in Cuba in 1968, and in Italy thirty years later.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
6 September 1985exact date
Roccamareattested
“On 6 September 1985, Calvino suffered a stroke in his villa in Roccamare, where he was preparing for a lecture tour of the United States.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
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Places Italo Calvino is documented in
Italy2 presences · 1954 to 1967Cuba1 presence · 1967Milan1 presence · 1945New York1 presence · 1959Santiago1 presence · 1923Turin1 presence · 1945United States1 presence · 1959University of Turin1 presence · 1941
Roccamare1 presence · 1985
Santiago de Las Vegas1 presence · 1923
Other places tied to Italo Calvino in the record
In each of these, a source puts Italo Calvino and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Italo Calvino was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1925year
Sanremomentioned
“In 1925, less than two years after Calvino's birth, the family returned to Italy and settled permanently in Sanremo on the Ligurian coast.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1925year
Italymentioned
“In 1925, less than two years after Calvino's birth, the family returned to Italy and settled permanently in Sanremo on the Ligurian coast.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1938year
Civitavecchiamentioned
“In 1938, Eugenio Scalfari, who went on to found the weekly magazine and , a major Italian newspaper, came from Civitavecchia to join the same class though a year younger, and they shared the same desk.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1943year
University of Florencementioned
“Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed in a "provincial shell" that offered the illusion of immunity from the Fascist nightmare: "We were ‘hard guys’ from the provinces, hunters, snooker-players, show-offs, proud o…”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1945year
Maritime Alpsmentioned
“Using the nom de guerre "Santiago", Calvino joined the Garibaldi Brigades, a clandestine Communist group and, for twenty months, endured the fighting in the Maritime Alps until 1945 and the Liberation.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1947 to 1952period
Turinmentioned
“Over a seven-year period, Calvino wrote three realist novels, The White Schooner (1947–1949), Youth in Turin (1950–1951), and The Queen's Necklace (1952–54), but all were deemed defective.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1948year
Stresamentioned
“In 1948, he interviewed one of his literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, travelling with Natalia Ginzburg to his home in Stresa.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1951year
Soviet Unionmentioned
“In late 1951, presumably to advance in the Communist Party, he spent two months in the Soviet Union as a correspondent for .”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1959 to 2003period
Parismentioned
“My city is New York." The letters he wrote to Einaudi describing this visit to the United States were first published as "American Diary 1959–1960" in Hermit in Paris in 2003.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1962 to 1964period
Havanamentioned
“In 1962 Calvino met Argentinian translator Esther Judith Singer ("Chichita") and married her in 1964 in Havana, during a trip in which he visited his birthplace and was introduced to Ernesto "Che" Guevara.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1965year
Romementioned
“He and his wife settled in Rome in via Monte Brianzo where their daughter, Giovanna, was born in 1965.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1967 to 1968period
Parismentioned
“Perhaps it's a metabolic process, something that comes with age, I'd been young for a long time, perhaps too long, suddenly I felt that I had to begin my old age, yes, old age, perhaps with the hope of prolonging it by beginning it early…”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1976year
Mexicomentioned
“Awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1976, he visited Mexico, Japan, and the United States, where he gave a series of lectures in several American cities.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
1985year
Harvard Universitymentioned
“During the summer of 1985, Calvino prepared a series of texts on literature for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to be delivered at Harvard University in the fall.”
source: Wikipedia: Italo Calvino
Documented at the same place, the same year
Benito MussoliniMilan · 1945Lella LombardiUniversity of Turin · 1941Princess Irene of Greece and DenmarkItaly · 1967Hans KüngItaly · 1954Kevin A. LynchItaly · 1954Bruce LeeUnited States · 1959Nikita KhrushchevUnited States · 1959SukarnoUnited States · 1959T. S. EliotUnited States · 1959John FrankenheimerUnited States · 1959Fredric JamesonUnited States · 1959Robert FrankUnited States · 1959
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