Giorgio Bassani 2000 Deaths
Giorgio Bassani
Age: 84Italian novelist whose experience as a Jew under the clenched fist of Fascist Italy served as a recurrent theme in his complex, analytic narratives. He's best known for 1962's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which was made into a film in 1971.
Died: Rome, Italy, 4/13/00Leonard Baskin | A - G | Helen Beardsley |