Author Archive for: ‘Bernardo Bertolucci’

Bernardo Bertolucci was born (in 1940) into a world – and more specifically, a household – of poetry. “I began writing poetry as soon as I could write, when I was about six.” His father, Attilio Bertolucci, was a celebrated poet in his lifetime and beyond; during the 1950s and ‘60s, he edited the important magazine Il gatto selvatico (see …