author
Luigi Gualdo
1844–1898
A Milan-born writer who moved between Italy and Paris, he wrote fiction and poetry in both Italian and French and moved in lively literary circles on both sides of the Alps. His work blends cosmopolitan polish with the restless spirit of late 19th-century literature.
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Le nostalgie
by Luigi Gualdo
La gran rivale
by Luigi Gualdo
Un matrimonio eccentrico : romanzo
by Luigi Gualdo
About the author
Born in Milan on February 9, 1844, Luigi Gualdo was an Italian writer and poet who spent much of his life between Milan and Paris. He became closely associated with the Scapigliatura milieu in Milan, a circle of writers and artists known for their rebellious, modern spirit.
Gualdo wrote in both French and Italian, which gave his career an unusually international shape for his time. Among the works most often remembered are the French novels Une ressemblance (1874) and Un mariage excentrique (1879), along with Italian collections of stories and verse such as Novelle and Le nostalgie.
He died in Paris on May 15, 1898. Today he is remembered as a cross-cultural literary figure whose life and writing connected Italian and French literary worlds in the late 1800s.