TALAMO, Vincenzo. Ardore, Reggio Calabria 7.3.1914 — 2006. Italian Physician interested in Buddhism. In 1925 family moved to Turin, then back in Reggio. Interested early in Buddhism, but studied medicine at Naples and Florence. In the war served in Liguria and Balkan as medical officer. At armistice joined Tito’s partisans, but was taken prisoner by Germans. Back in Italy worked in railway medical service in Turin, became friends of Frola and students of Indology there. Travelled in India, China, Thailand and Nepal.
Publications: Translated from Pāli: Il sutta in sezioni (Sutta Nipata). Turin 1961; Cosí è stato detto (Iti vuttaka). Introd., traduzione e note. 137 p. Canone Buddhistico. Turin 1962.; Saṃyutta Nikāya. 770 p. Rome 1998; Storie e leggende buddhiste. 144 p. Turin 1999; I testi della disciplina monastica (Vinaya Piṭaka). 1. Khandhaka (Le sezioni). Edited by A. S. Comba. 486 p. Raleigh 2012.
– Il sapore della liberazione. Letture buddhiste. 176 p. Turin 1995.
Sources: A.S. Comba in Vinaya Pitaka.
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