Where Did Neruda Live in Italy?

Though “The Postman” is fictional, Neruda did stay in a villa on the Italian island of Capri with Matilde--as the movie depicts--during part of his exile that lasted from 1948 to 1951. La Chascona

La Chascona
Neruda began work on the house in 1953 for his then secret lover, Matilde Urrutia, whose curly red hair inspired the house's name; chascona is a Chilean Spanish word of Quechua origin referring to a wild mane of hair. ... La Chascona is managed today by the Pablo Neruda Foundation.
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is my first poet's house.

Where did Neruda live?

Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto on 12 July 1904, in Parral, Chile, a city in Linares Province, now part of the greater Maule Region, some 350 km south of Santiago, to José del Carmen Reyes Morales, a railway employee, and Rosa Neftalí Basoalto Opazo, a school teacher with Jewish roots, who ...

Where did Pablo Neruda stay in Capri?

Il Postino is a fictionalised account of the time Neruda spent staying in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri while in exile from his homeland in 1952.

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