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He quoted Aeschylus's line that "I say the dead slay the living" in his collection The Incomparable Earth, and his notable translations include those of Moliere's Tartuffe and e.e. cummings. His early works, first published in the journal Solaria, include "Vento a Tindari" and "Vicolo", part of his first collection Water and Land. First coming to international attention with And Suddenly It's Evening, one of his poems was set by Elliot Carter in Tempo e Tempi along with works of his compatriots Ungaretti and Montale; that work was the titular poem of his 1932 collection The Sunken Oboe. For 10 points, name this Italian hermeticist who shares a name with the bell-ringer from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He quoted Aeschylus's line that "I say the dead slay the living" in his collection The Incomparable Earth, and his notable translations include those of Moliere's Tartuffe and e.e.
Salvatore Quasimodo