author
Edoardo Calandra
1852–1911
Known for richly atmospheric historical fiction set in Piedmont, this Italian writer first trained as a painter and brought an artist’s eye to his storytelling. His best-known novel, La bufera, helped make him a distinctive voice in Italian literature at the turn of the twentieth century.
5 Audiobooks
Ad oltranza : commedia in 4 atti
by Edoardo Calandra
La bufera
by Edoardo Calandra
La falce - Punizione - L'enigma
by Edoardo Calandra
Reliquie - Le masse cristiane
by Edoardo Calandra
La straniera : Novelle e teatro
by Edoardo Calandra
About the author
Born in Turin in 1852, Edoardo Calandra came from a cultivated Piedmontese family and began his career in the visual arts. He studied painting and was also deeply interested in archaeology and history, interests that later shaped the vivid settings and careful period detail of his fiction.
After turning seriously to literature in the 1880s, he wrote novels, stories, and plays, often drawing on the past of Piedmont and the years around the Napoleonic era. He is especially remembered for La bufera, the work most often associated with his name, and for the balanced, historically grounded way he brought political and private conflicts together.
Calandra died in 1911. Though less widely known today than some of his contemporaries, he remains an appealing figure for readers who enjoy historical fiction with a strong sense of place, careful atmosphere, and the sensibility of a writer who was also an artist.