Maria Luisa Spaziani

Italian poet.

Born December 7th, 1924 in Turin. [ref]

Died June 30th, 2014 at 89 years old in Rome. [ref]

Occupations
essayist, playwright, poet, translator, university teacher, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel