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Hermann Hesse’s Ticino years

Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. After spending his early years alternately in Switzerland and Germany, he finally put down roots in the southern canton of Ticino, where he wrote his most popular novels. (RSI/swissinfo.ch)

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