Franco Fortini

Biography

Franco Fortini, born Franco Lattes on September 10, 1917, was a multifaceted Italian intellectual. He served as an officer in the Italian army during World War II and later joined the partisans in Valdossola. After the war, he worked as a journalist, translator, and taught at secondary schools, before assuming the Chair of Literary Criticism at the University of Siena from 1976 onwards.