Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor born in Livorno on July 12 1884, sun of Flaminio Modigliani and Eugenio Garsin, the family of Jewish tradition and grew up in poverty, after the firm changers of the father went bankrupt

When Amedeo had eleven years, his mother wrote in a diary that he was flawed but intelligent: "We must wait to see what is in this chrysalis. Perhaps an artist? ". The question arose from a specific family in which the attitude towards life considered not so much the money as ultimate goal, but as a means to choose the values of culture, freedom and fantasy. Born to Jewish parents traders, Modigliani grew up in an envi

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