David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885 at Eastwood, a poor mining village in Nottinghamshire. His parents came from different cultural backgrounds and this fact was the cause of frequent quarrels. These family tensions deeply affected young David, a pale, delicate, sickly boy, who grew shy and insecure. At the age of thirteen he left the school and began working in a manifacturing firm of surgical appliances in in Nottingham. But he soon fell ill whit pneumonia that will bring him to death. In 1901 he maid the acquintance of Jessie Chambers, a sweet and intelligent girl that played an important part in his life. In 1903 he obtained his first teacher certificate and 1908 he saw his first novel published. 1912 was a particular year: while paying a visit to his former Professor of French, he met his German born wife, Frieda von Richthofen, who was five years older then him: they fell passionately in love and after few times they fled to Germany. He stayed many years in Italy and Germany, then came back to England but, because of the out break of the First World War, he decided to leave his country and began to travel around the world in search of an ideal land, but he never found it. Up to 1922 he stayed in Italy where he visited Sardinia and Sicily, impressed by Giovanni Verga's works, he started the translation of Mastro don Gesualdo. After many other travels he died on March 2, 1930 in the south of France. Lawrence was a novelist, a poet, a critic and also a pointer; he left a large litterary production made up of novels, short stories, poems and plays..