Qua·si·mo·do (kwä z -m  d), Salvatore 1901-1968. Italian poet whose early nostalgic works contrast with his later socially concerned poetry. He won the 1959 Nobel Prize for literature. |
Quasimodo [ˌkwɔːzɪˈməʊdəʊ]
n
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) another name for Low Sunday
[from the opening words of the Latin introit for that day, quasimodo geniti infantes as new-born babies]
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms 1831)) a character in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), a grotesque hunch-backed bellringer of the cathedral of Notre Dame
3. (Biographies / (Italian)) Salvatore (salvaˈtoːre). 1901-68, Italian poet, whose early work expresses symbolist ideas and techniques. His later work is more concerned with political and social issues: Nobel prize for literature 1959
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