Domenico Vittorini

[1] Domenico Vittorini was born in Preturo, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy on October 28, 1892 and died 66 years later in Havertown, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1958.

His wife, Helen Whitney, was a student in his first class and they were married the day following her graduation.

[1] He immigrated to the United States in 1917 and received a graduate degree in English at Princeton University.

Unfinished works include Age of Boccaccio and Petrarch, which is a sequel to his book on Dante.

A selection of these tales was re-published through the efforts of his son, Carlo Vittorini, by Crown Publishers in 1995 under the name, The Thread of Life.