Italian painter (1910-1988).
Died October 28th, 1988 at 78 years old in Florence (kidney failure).
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