Cardarelli left his native city of Tarquinia when still quite young, but never forgot it, thanks to his love/hate relationship with the town. In fact he used to be quite homesick for Tarquinia, despite considering himself the proverbial rolling stone, to the point that he often mentioned it in his poems and prose. His infancy and eventful youth were the themes for several of his works, such as "La Civita, Corneto, Roma".
The poet's birthplace can today be visited in Via Santa Lucia Filippini, Tarquinia.

Life
Vincenzo Cardarelli, real name Nazareno, was born in Tarquinia in May 1887. His education was varied and never formal. When his father died in 1905 he left his hometown and a year later settled in Rome to search his fortune. He fell in with the socialists and worked as a journalist, editing "Avanti!", Italy's first socialist paper, followed by an essay, "Metodo Estetico", and his early poems. In 1929 he won the Bagutta Prize for Literature for his book "Il Sole a picco".
Cardarelli is mostly remembered for creating a specific literary style.

He died in Rome in 1959, but is buried in Tarquinia, the heart of the Etruscan civilisation, as the poet requested in his last will and testament.