Ottavio Profeta

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Ottavio Profeta (October 10, 1890 – November 23, 1963) was an Italian poet.

[edit] Biography

Ottavio Profeta was born in Aidone on October 10 1890 to Franco and Adele Piazza. After a university degree in law and a short public job in Catania, Sicily, he binded personally to Verga, Capuano and Pirandello and followed their trail in representing artistically the fall of romantic illusions and the certainty of '800, with a particular care to "losers",the poor and the little middle-class, eternally between the desperation and rid of illusions. He died in Mascalucia in 1963.

[edit] Published works

• L'amante dell'amore
• Nascere
• Odia il prossimo tuo
• Sicilia Favola vera