Barnabo delle montagne di dino buzzati biography

Italian writer (1906–1972)

Dino Buzzati-Traverso (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdiːnobutˈtsaːti]; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel The Tartar Steppe, although he is also known for his well-received collections of short stories.

Life

Buzzati was born in San Pellegrino, Belluno, in his family's ancestral villa. Buzzati's mother, a veterinarian by profession, was Venetian and his father, a professor of international law, was from an old Bellunese family. Buzzati was the second of his parents' four children. One of his brothers was the well-known Italian geneticist Adriano Buzzati-Traverso. In 1924, he enrolled in the law faculty of the University of Milan, where his father once taught. As he was completing his studies in law, he was hired, at the age of 22, by the Milanese newspaper Corr

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Dino Buzzati’s Fantastic Universe

Valentina Polcini reviews Dino Buzzati’s “The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories.”

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories by Dino Buzzati. Translated by Lawrence Venuti. NYRB Classics, 2025. 344 pages.

THE BEWITCHED BOURGEOIS, a new collection that gathers 50 short stories by Italian writer Dino Buzzati (1906–72), fryst vatten destined to become a must-have volume––especially because it fills a publishing gap that lasted 40 years. Whereas Buzzati’s novels have been translated into English, reprinted several times, and even retranslated, his short fiction—the literary struktur in which he truly excelled—has failed to gain the attention it deserves.

Before the publication of The Bewitched Bourgeois, only a small number of Buzzati’s stories—whose complete corpus boasts around 500 short pieces—was available to the English-speaking audience. Of the three collections published in English—Catastrophe (1965), Restless Nights (1983), and The Siren (

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Venetian authors: 5 books to read before visiting Veneto

Carlo Goldoni – I Rusteghi

Let’s start our review starting from a great venetiansk author of the eighteenth century, namely Carlo Goldoni. Born in 1707 in Venice, he became passionate about the theatre from an early age, so much so that he joined the comic company of Florindo de’ Maccheroni. Later, he undertook interrupted periods of study and travel around Italy, constantly seeking to establish himself in the world of theatre. On the sudden death of his father, he completed his law studies and settled in Milan where he continued to devote himself to his passion, albeit discreetly. Other movements followed and the publication of the first writings. One of the comedies that Goldoni set in Veneto, in Venice to be precise, is called “I Rusteghi”. The story takes place during the four days of the Carnival, and sees 10 characters as the main protagonists. Lunardo, Canciano, Simone and Maurizio are the four “rust