12 Facts About Massimo Bontempelli

Massimo Bontempelli was an Italian poet, playwright, novelist and composer.

Massimo Bontempelli was influential in developing and promoting the literary styles known as magical realism and lombard line.

Massimo Bontempelli's father was a train engineer on the State Railways and frequently moved with his family to other cities for work reasons.

Massimo Bontempelli taught literature in Cherasco and then in Ancona for seven years, doing his writing on the side.

Massimo Bontempelli then abandoned teaching when he could not secure a position at a secondary school.

Massimo Bontempelli then published the novels La vita intense, which he had already published in installments in Ardita, the monthly supplement of Il Popolo d'Italia, and La vita operosa in 1921.

In March 1927, Massimo Bontempelli, who had separated from his wife, began a relationship with Paola Masino, who was thirty years younger.

Massimo Bontempelli served as a secretary of the fascist writers' union from 1928 and spent time abroad lecturing on Italian culture.

Massimo Bontempelli began to distance himself from fascism in the 1930s.

In 1948, Massimo Bontempelli won a Senate race on the Popular Democratic Front ticket but the results were voided in 1950 when his role editing an anthology of Italian literature for school children, which triggered the provisions barring anyone who had authored school texts from holding public office for five years after adoption of the new Constitution was discovered.

Massimo Bontempelli is buried in the Verano cemetery in Rome.

Massimo Bontempelli was in a long-term relationship with Paola Masino that lasted from the late 1920s until his death.