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

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. 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 Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...

's '' The Betrothed'', that actually was an implicit satire against fascism. He became an intellectual unpopular with the

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and marginalized after the approval of

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. Da Verona committed suicide in

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at age 57.

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