Italo calvino biography of donald

Italo Calvino is an Italian journalist and novelist known as one of the greatest Italian fiction authors of the 20th century.

Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba in 1923 to an Italian father and Sardinian mother.

Calvino's parents were both well-respected botanists. When Calvino was two, his parents moved the family back to Sanremo, Italy.

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Calvino attended school in Sanremo and began studying at the University of Turin at age 18. Calvino studied in an agriculture program, following in his parents' footsteps, but secretly was interested in literature, especially anti-Fascist literature.

When World War II began, Calvino transferred from the University of Turin to the University of Florence. However, in 1943, due to the German occupation of Italy, Calvino was forced to halt his studies and either join the military service or go into hiding.

He chose to go into hiding for a few months, until his mother c