QUASIMODO SALVATORE: (1901-1968) Italian Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. The Sicilian writer is widely considered one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. A good T.L.S., `Salvatore Quasimodo´, one page, folio, Milan, 1st of June 1967, On his personal printed stationery, to Biagio Marin, in Italian. Quasimodo thanks his correspondent for the book received, stating `Le sono grato del Suo libro di versi ''El mar de ´l´Eterno'' che ha avuto la gentilezza di mandarmi. Lo leggeró con piacere, sicuro che il suo amore per la vera poesía non e mutato´ (''I am grateful to you for your book of verses ''El mar de ´l´Eterno'' which you were kind enough to send me. I will read it with pleasure, being sure that your love for true poetry has not change'') VG