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Guido da Verona
1881–1939
A bestselling Italian novelist of the early 20th century, remembered for stylish, emotionally charged fiction that reached a huge popular audience. He began as a poet and became one of the writers who helped turn modern commercial fiction into a mass phenomenon in Italy.
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
Mimi Bluette, fiore del mio giardino: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
L'amore che torna: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
La vita comincia domani: romanzo
by Guido da Verona
About the author
Born in Saliceto Panaro in 1881, Guido da Verona was the pen name of Guido Verona, an Italian poet and novelist. Sources agree that he came from a Jewish family, started out publishing poetry in the early 1900s, and later moved into fiction.
His novels were widely read in the years before and just after World War I, and he is often described as an important figure in the rise of popular fiction in Italy. His best-known work is Mimì Bluette, fiore del mio giardino (1916), the novel most closely associated with his fame.
He died in Milan in 1939. Today he is remembered less as a canonical literary giant than as a vivid, influential popular writer whose success says a lot about changing reading tastes in early modern Italy.