Guido da Verona
1881–1939
Biography
Guido da Verona was the pen name of Guido Verona, an Italian poet and novelist born in 1881 at Saliceto Panaro, into a Jewish family. He began publishing verse in 1901 and turned to fiction about a decade later. He took his own life in Milan in 1939, aged fifty-seven.
His first novel, Colei che non si deve amare, appeared in 1911, and the popular novels that followed made him the most commercially successful Italian writer of the years from 1914 to 1939. The best-known of them, Mimì Bluette, fiore del mio giardino, had sold some 300,000 copies by 1922, a remarkable figure in a country where most of the population was still unable to read. His work is counted among the most typical examples of the Italian feuilleton, the tradition of popular serial fiction.
His later years were darkened by politics. He signed the 1925 manifesto of Fascist intellectuals, but in 1929 he published a parody of Manzoni's The Betrothed that was read as a satire on Fascism. After the racial laws of 1938 he was pushed to the margins as a Jew and fell out of favour with the regime. The site holds his novel L'amore che torna, which lets readers judge for themselves the storytelling that once made him so popular.
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Books
L'amore che torna: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
Guelfo, a worldly man of pleasure, is haunted by the beauty of a woman he has never possessed, and tells in the first person how desire, jealousy and old habits of seduction take hold of his life. A sensual bestseller of the Belle Epoque by one of the most popular and most…
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