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Cesare Tronconi
1842–1890
An Italian novelist and journalist remembered for bold, provocative fiction, he wrote stories that stirred controversy in his own time. His work is often linked with the unruly energy of Milan’s Scapigliatura scene and the rise of a more realistic, socially pointed style.
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Madri.... per ridere : romanzo
by Cesare Tronconi
About the author
Cesare Tronconi was an Italian writer and journalist active in the late nineteenth century. Sources consistently identify him as a novelist known for material that contemporary critics viewed as scandalous, and as a figure associated with the literary world around the Scapigliatura movement.
His best-known books include Passione maledetta (1876), Un amore a fondo perso (1877), Madri per ridere (1877), Le commedie di Venere (1880), Delitti (1881), and Caro foco! (1882). Reference sources also connect him with the periodical Lo Scapigliato, and some describe him as a journalist and polemicist as well as a novelist.
There is some disagreement in the sources about his exact birth and death years, but the identification you gave—1842 to 1890—matches major cataloging records and the Italian Wikipedia entry. I could not confirm a suitable portrait from the author pages I checked, so no profile image is included.