author
Luigi Barzini
1874–1947
A globe-trotting reporter who helped define modern war correspondence, he brought speed, color, and first-hand drama to the news. His books and dispatches captured the excitement of early 20th-century travel, conflict, and technology.
5 Audiobooks
L'Argentina vista come è
by Luigi Barzini
Van Peking naar Parijs per auto De Aarde en haar Volken, 1908
by Luigi Barzini, Scipione Borghese
Al fronte (maggio-ottobre 1915)
by Luigi Barzini
The Little Match Man
by Luigi Barzini
About the author
Born in Orvieto in 1874, Luigi Barzini was an Italian journalist, writer, and foreign correspondent who became widely known for vivid reporting from major international events. He built his reputation at Corriere della Sera, where his fast, energetic style helped make him one of the best-known Italian reporters of his era.
He reported on conflicts and political upheavals in places including China and the Balkans, and he also wrote about travel and modern life with the same eye for movement and detail. One of the works most often associated with him is his account of the 1907 Peking-to-Paris automobile race, which reflects both his love of adventure and his feel for the drama of a changing world.
Later in life he also entered public life, serving as a senator. He died in 1947, and he is still remembered as a pioneering journalist whose career linked classic literary reportage with the faster, more immediate style of the modern press.