Sebastiano Vassalli

Meriel Tulante (Philadelphia University)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 24 Oct 1941
Died 26 Jul 2015
Activity 1965-2015

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

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Novelist

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Art Theorist/ Historian/ Critic

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Sebastiano Vassalli was born in Genoa in 1941 to a Tuscan mother and a Lombardan father. In his early childhood, his parents abandoned him to be brought up by relatives in Novara, where Vassalli lived as a young man in the city or latterly in a farmhouse in the midst of the ricefields of the Po valley. He attended the faculty of Lettere at the University of Milan, graduating with a thesis on contemporary art and psychology. Survived by his second wife and estranged adopted son from his first marriage, he died on July 26, 2015, in a hospice in a small town outside Novara after a short illness.

Vassalli was deeply connected to Novara and its surroundings, frequently narrating the geography, history, and contemporary …

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Citation: Tulante, Meriel. "Sebastiano Vassalli". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13848, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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