Gerolamo Rovetta

Born in Brescia, then part of the Austrian Empire, he became known in Italy as both a novelist and a playwright. Sources agree that he wrote novels, short stories, and stage works, and that he built a large popular readership in the late 19th century.

His first novel, Mater dolorosa (1882), was a notable success, and he later became especially associated with the drama Romanticismo. His writing is often described as attentive to contemporary manners and social life, which helped give his fiction and plays an immediate, accessible appeal.

The dates in your prompt appear slightly off: the most consistent biographical sources list his life as 1851–1910, not 1854–1910. He died in Milan on May 8, 1910.