The room is dedicated to the poet Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Modica (Ragusa) on August 20, 1901. Quasimodo graduated at the Technical Institute and in the meantime published poems in some local symbolist magazines. In 1919 he was in Rome to study engineering. He also attended Latin and Greek courses. He was an Italian poet and translator, a prominent exponent of Hermeticism. He contributed to the translation of various compositions of the classical age, especially Greek operas, but also of theatrical works by Molière and William Shakespeare. He was a Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1959.