Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
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Portrait of Pavese
Constance Dowling
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Constance Dowling was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
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…frequently visit Le Langhe, the area where he was born, where he found great solace. Depression, the failure of a brief love affair with the actress Constance Dowling, to whom his last novel and one of his last poems ("Death will come and she'll have your eyes") were dedicated, and political disillusionment led him…
Andrea Checchi and Constance Dowling in Stormbound (1950)