Giuseppe D'Agata (11 January 1927 – 29 March 2011) was an Italian author, screenwriter and television writer. D'Agata was the son of a Molise couple from Guglionesi (Campobasso) who moved to Bologna, where his father was a printer, at the age of fifteen, thanks to two books won by his father in a local lottery, one of which was Elio Vittorini's Conversazione in Sicilia, he discovered that there was a contemporary literature beyond the authors of the scholastic canon, such as D'Annunzio, Giosuè Carducci and Giovanni Pascoli. In 1943 he obtained a diploma as a commercial computist and the following year, at the age of seventeen, joined the Matteotti SAP partisan brigade, joining the Socialist Party (then Italian Socialist Party). After the war he resumed his studies: he studied music and played as a ,rummer in an orchestra at a student club, an activity he practiced professionally for two years. In 1947 he wrote his first short stories, Elio Vittorini, which he considered experiments not worthy of publication. He also had a brief experience, in 1949, as a painter in the Metaphysical painting style. More information...
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