Alberto Bevilacqua

Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass, was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s. Friendship Lost, his first book of poems, was published in 1961. Caliph, published in 1964, was his breakthrough novel.