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Guido da Verona
1881–1939
A bestselling Italian novelist and poet, he became one of the most widely read popular writers in Italy in the years around World War I. His books mixed elegance, sentiment, and scandal in a way that caught the mood of a changing middle-class audience.
6 Audiobooks
Il Cavaliere dello Spirito Santo: Storia d'una giornata
by Guido da Verona
Colei che non si deve amare: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
Sciogli la treccia, Maria Maddalena; romanzo
by Guido da Verona
La vita comincia domani: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
Mimi Bluette, fiore del mio giardino: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
L'amore che torna: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
About the author
Born Guido Verona in Saliceto Panaro in 1881, he wrote under the name Guido da Verona and built an early reputation as both a poet and a novelist. He came from a Jewish family and was educated in Milan, where he began publishing at the start of the twentieth century.
His fiction made him a literary celebrity. Works such as Colei che non si deve amare, La vita comincia domani, and especially Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino brought him a huge readership, and reference sources describe him as one of the first Italian authors to achieve true mass-market success.
Readers were drawn to his polished, fashionable style, with its blend of romance, irony, sensuality, and modern urban glamour. He died in Milan in 1939, leaving behind a body of work that captures the tastes, fantasies, and contradictions of Italian popular culture in the early twentieth century.