13 Facts About Carlo Stuparich

Carlo Stuparich was an Italian writer, patriot and war hero.

Admirers believe that, had he lived for longer, Carlo would have been remembered as the more accomplished and more original writer of the two.

Carlo Stuparich had two recorded siblings, both older than he was.

Carlo Stuparich took particular delight in playing the popular Bach chaconne.

Carlo Stuparich formed an attachment to the great literature fashionable at the time.

In or before 1913 Carlo Stuparich enrolled at the "Istituto di Studi Superiori di Firenze", embarking on his university-level education in the city of Dante and the home of the newly revitalised Italian language.

From an Austrian perspective, Trieste was increasingly perceived as a focus for dangerous Itlain separatism within the empire, and it was certainly case that the Carlo Stuparich brothers were far from unique among the new generation of school graduates in choosing to complete their education in Florence.

Carlo Stuparich joined with his brother and with Slataper in becoming both a regular contributor to the anti-establishment and increasingly influential literary journal "La Voce" and an adherent to the intellectual currents with which the magazine and its founder.

Carlo Stuparich was struck, like others, by the boredom of much of the army life.

On 29 May 1916 a force of Austro-Hungarians, significantly larger in numbers than the small Italian platoon commanded by Carlo Stuparich, captured and consolidated their position on nearby "Punta Corbin".

Carlo Stuparich was still alive, but now committed suicide to avoid what seemed, otherwise, like certain capture by enemy forces.

One of the many city squares in Milan has been renamed in honour of Carlo Stuparich and there is a street in Rome that carries his name.

Letters from Carlo Stuparich are included during the twentieth century in a number of other published volumes of correspondence.