Salvatore Farina
Encyclopedia
Salvatore Farina was an Italian
novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens
.
Born in the Sardinia
n town of Sorso
, he studied law
at Turin
and Pavia
before moving to Milan
and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
Italy
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novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
.
Born in the Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
n town of Sorso
Sorso
Sorso is a comune of c. 14,700 inhabitants in the province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 8 km north of Sassari.-Overview:...
, he studied law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
at Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
and Pavia
Pavia
Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...
before moving to Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life.
Works
- Il tesoro di Donnina (1873)
- Amore bendato (1875)
- Capelli biondi (1876)
- Mio figlio! (1877-1881)
- Frutti proibiti
- Un tiranno al bagni di mare
- Cuore e blasone
- Due amori
- Amore ha cento occhi
- Per la vita e per la morte
- La mia giornata, a trilogy:
- Dall'alba al meriggio (1910)
- Care ombre (1913)
- Dal meriggio al tramonto (1915)
External links
- Farina page, with picture (in Italian)