author
Luciano Zùccoli
1868–1929
An early 20th-century novelist and journalist, he wrote with elegance and sharp social observation. His career moved between literature and the press, helping make him a well-known voice in Italian cultural life.
6 Audiobooks
Roberta
by Luciano Zùccoli
Il Designato: Romanzo
by Luciano Zùccoli
L'amore di Loredana
by Luciano Zùccoli
Donne e fanciulle
by Luciano Zùccoli
La freccia nel fianco
by Luciano Zùccoli
La volpe di Sparta
by Luciano Zùccoli
About the author
Born Luciano von Ingenheim in Calprino, in what is now the Canton of Ticino, on December 5, 1868, he wrote under the name Luciano Zùccoli. Of German family origin, he was educated in Milan and later became an officer before turning fully toward journalism and fiction.
He was among the early collaborators of Il Marzocco, directed a conservative newspaper in Modena at the end of the 1890s, and later co-directed the Gazzetta di Venezia. Alongside his journalism, he built a successful literary career as a novelist and short-story writer, and he became widely read in Italy in the years before and after World War I.
Zùccoli died in Paris on November 26, 1929. He is remembered as a popular and polished storyteller whose work stands between late 19th-century literary culture and the more modern Italian fiction that followed.