Quasimodo (redirected from Quasimodo, Salvatore)

Qua·si·mo·do  (kwäz-md), Salvatore 1901-1968.

Italian poet whose early nostalgic works contrast with his later socially concerned poetry. He won the 1959 Nobel Prize for literature.

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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