Michele Pane

Michele Pane (Adami of Decollatura, March 11, 1876 – Chicago, April 18, 1953) was an Italian American symbolist poet and journalist who wrote in northern Calabrese.

He was born at (Adami of Decollatura (Calabria, Italy) to a family of middle-class landowners.

His first poem, The Red Man (1898) caused him several disputes and even a trial.

In the US he was involved in various activities (wine merchant, Italian teacher, notary, bank clerk, journalist, etc.)

In 1924 he moved from Brooklyn to Omaha, Nebraska, and then to Chicago, and he remained there for about thirty years.