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Savinio was the brother of the artist Giorgio de Chirico and an associate of Apollinaire.
AlbertoSavinio was born in Greece from Italian aristocratic lineage, and studied music in Berlin before moving to Paris in 1910 with his brother Giorgio de Chirico, the painter.
Savinio lived in Italy from 1914 to 1933, when he returned to Paris; he continued to write in French as well as Italian, and was close to the Surrealists, publishing in their reviews as well as in Breton’s Anthology of Black Humour (a story included here).