Italo Alighiero Chiusano was born on June 10, 1926 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for
Orfeo in Paradiso (1971),
Le affinità elettive (1978) and
I Buddenbrook (1971). He died on February 15, 1995 in Frascati, Lazio, Italy.