Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.
22 Facts About Emilio Salgari
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Emilio Salgari is considered the father of Italian adventure fiction and Italian pop culture, and the "grandfather" of the Spaghetti Western.
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Emilio Salgari was born in Verona to a family of modest merchants.
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Emilio Salgari began his writing career as a reporter on the daily La Nuova Arena, which published some of his work as serials.
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Emilio Salgari claimed to have explored the Sudan desert, met Buffalo Bill in Nebraska, and sailed the Seven Seas.
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Emilio Salgari turned his passion for exploration and discovery to writing.
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Ida became ill after 1903 and Emilio Salgari's struggling increased with her medical bills.
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Emilio Salgari left three letters, addressed to his and Ida's children, his publisher, and the editors of his newspaper in Turin.
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Emilio Salgari wrote more than 200 adventure stories and novels, setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures.
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Emilio Salgari gained inspiration from reading foreign literature and newspapers, travel magazines and encyclopedias, which he used to portray his heroes' worlds.
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Emilio Salgari wrote four major series: The Pirates of Malaysia; The Black Corsair Saga; The Pirates of Bermuda; and a collection of adventures set in the Old West.
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Emilio Salgari's heroes were mostly pirates, outlaws and barbarians, fighting against greed, abuse of power, and corruption.
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Emilio Salgari's tales had been so popular that soon his publisher hired other writers to develop adventure stories under his name.
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Emilio Salgari's style was imitated by many, but no other Italian adventure writer managed to duplicate his popular success.
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Emilio Salgari's work was imitated in one form or another by many who came after him.
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Many late 19th century writers such as Luigi Motta and Emilio Fancelli wrote further Sandokan adventures imitating Salgari's style: fast-paced, filled with great battles, blood, violence and punctuated with humour.
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Emilio Salgari's work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young.
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In 2001 the first National Emilio Salgari Association was founded in Italy to celebrate his work.
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Emilio Salgari was never credited, and Gabriele D'Annunzio was billed as the official screenwriter.
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Emilio Salgari later reprised the role in the late 1990s in a series of sequels.
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Emilio Salgari's works have been published by numerous publishing houses worldwide.
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Excerpts from 15 of Emilio Salgari's titles were collected in Storie Rosse in 1910.