1. Luigi Ugolini is best known for his series of fictionalized biographies of Italian leaders in art and science, and for a volume of work that immortalizes traditions, values and ways of life of Tuscany and Florence.
26 Facts About Luigi Ugolini
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Luigi Ugolini was a painter, an expert ornithologist and gastronome.
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Luigi Ugolini descended from a noble family of Tuscany whose recorded lineage dates back to 1585 in Arezzo, Italy.
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Luigi Ugolini was born in Florence, where his Siena-born father and his grandfather both had medical practices.
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Luigi Ugolini was a nobleman who was known to prefer the company of poor farmers in the regions of Maremma, whom he described as truer gentlemen than many of those so-called gentlemen in the city.
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Luigi Ugolini married Lina Vaselli, and the couple had seven children, four sons and three daughters.
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Luigi Ugolini attended the Military Academy of Modena and graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in Law, mainly to honor his father's wishes.
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Luigi Ugolini was introduced by Giovanni Papini in Nuova Antologia the leading Italian literary magazine.
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Luigi Ugolini was appointed by Ugolini as executrix of his literary and personal estate in 1972, and later named to that position by Ugolini's last will and testament.
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Luigi Ugolini worked with her father and cared for him until his death in 1980.
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Luigi Ugolini's body is interred in the Porte Sante cemetery at the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence.
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On his death bed, Luigi Ugolini told his daughter Lydia that he had always been true to his wife, her mother, and was still in love with her.
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Luigi Ugolini added that she was the only woman he had loved and that he would marry her again.
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Luigi Ugolini's last murmured words were, "Una pagina bianca".
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Luigi Ugolini wrote fiction and novelized historical biographies for adults and young readers, many of which are required reading in Italian schools.
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In 1916, Luigi Ugolini published Ex Corde, a collection of poems with themes about Nature, eternal war, and humanity.
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Luigi Ugolini was living as a second lieutenant after his graduation from the Military Academy of Modena and embarked in a law career for ten years, but this volume first publicly revealed Ugolini a poet.
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Luigi Ugolini contributed as a journalist to leading Italian newspapers, among them La Nazione and Messaggero.
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Luigi Ugolini's works have been translated into Japanese and most European languages and have won numerous literary prizes.
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On 27 April 1940 Luigi Ugolini was arrested by the Fascist police for his essays against the regime.
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When Benito Mussolini's political movement began to establish alliances with Germany, Luigi Ugolini protested and predicted the misfortune of entering World War II in alliance with Adolf Hitler.
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Luigi Ugolini was tried and condemned by the Special Court to two years of confinement as a political prisoner.
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Legends of Luigi Ugolini are still told in smaller towns of the Tuscan countryside.
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Luigi Ugolini is said to have packed his seven children into a car after a dishonest business manager lost their country villa, and to have lit a cigarette with a piece of money to show disdain for greed.
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Luigi Ugolini asked for copies of the essays in question, a pen, and a cigarette, and then he signed his name to each essay.
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Luigi Ugolini was spared execution because Mussolini admired his novel La Zolla and saw that the public opinion of Ugolini was too favorable.