Guido da Verona (the pseudonym of Guido Verona; 7 May 1881 – 5 April 1939) was an Italian poet and novelist.
Born in Saliceto Panaro to a Jewish family, Verona started his career as a poet in 1901 with the poetry collection Commemorazione del fatto d'arme di Brichetto, followed by I frammenti d'un poema (1902) and Bianco amore (1907).
He gained a larger popularity as a novelist, starting from 1911 when he published his first novel Colei che non si deve amare, considered among the most representative examples of the Italian Feuilleton. He later was the most commercially successful Italian writer between 1914 and 1939: particularly his novel Mimì Bluette, fiore del mio giardino, which reached 300,000 copies in 1922, an impressive run in Italy where illiteracy characterized the majority of the population.
He was a signatory to the Manifesto of Fascist intellectuals in 1925; in 1929 he published a parody novel of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, that actually was an implicit satire against fascism.
He became an intellectual unpopular with the Fascist regime and marginalized after the approval of racial laws. Da Verona committed suicide in Milan at age 57.
References
- Enzo Magrì (2005). Guido Da Verona, L'ebreo Fascista. Pellegrini Editore, 2005. ISBN 8881012782.
- Giovanna De Angelis, Stefano Giovanardi (2004). Storia della narrativa italiana del Novecento: 1900-1922. Feltrinelli Editore, 2004. ISBN 8807817993.
- Raffaele De Berti (2000). Dallo schermo alla carta. Vita e Pensiero, 2000. ISBN 8834306368.
- Giorgio Luti, Il novecento, volume 2, Piccin, 1993 ISBN 8829910201.
- Enrico Tiozzo (2004). Il romanzo blu, Volume 2. Aracne, 2006. ISBN 8879996223.
- Tommaso Scappaticci (2004). Lo scrittore al bivio: studi sulla letteratura del Novecento. Pellegrini Editore, 2004. ISBN 8881012111.
External links
- Works by Guido da Verona at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Guido da Verona at the Internet Archive
- 1881 births
- 1939 suicides
- 1939 deaths
- Religious leaders from the Province of Modena
- Italian male poets
- Suicides in Milan
- Italian male novelists
- 20th-century Italian poets
- 20th-century Italian novelists
- Jewish Italian writers
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Suicides by Jews during the Holocaust
- Italian Jews who died in the Holocaust
- Italian fascists
- Jewish fascists