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Daniele Varè

Daniele Varè (12 January – 27 February ) was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (republished in by Penguin Modern Classics).

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He is also remembered for Laughing Diplomat (John Murray, ), his autobiography as Italian diplomat.

biography

Varè's father, Giovanni Battista Varè (Venice – Rome ), was a lawyer, of the L'Indipendente newspaper and associate of Daniel Manin: hence as an Italian nationalist he was exiled from northern Italy by the then Austrian authorities.

His mother, Elizabeth Frances Chalmers, was Scottish.

Later he was vice-president of the Venetian Assembly and della camera Italiana&#;: ministero Guardasigilli del Regno (Ministri di grazia e giustizia del Regno d'Italia) in [1]

Varè spent his early years in the UK, returning to Italy with his Scottish mother at the age of His mother had met Giambattista in Rome in and married him in Young Daniele entered the Italian Diplomatic Service in and was first assigned to China in In he married Elizabeth Bettina Chalmers of Aldbar Castle near Brechin.[2] He returned as Italian Minister (Ambassador) to the Republican Government in China between and In Beijing he had as a subordinate Galeazzo Ciano (later to become Benito Mussolini's Minister of Foreign Affairs).

He also served in Geneva, Copenhagen and Luxembourg.[3]

In , while serving as Ambassador to Denmark, he was forced to resign by the Fascist Regime as many other Italian Diplomats.

Daniele vare biography of mahatma Daniele Varè (12 January – 27 February ) was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (republished in by Penguin Modern Classics).

Hence he originally published in English and only later in Italian.[4]

Works

His novels include: The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (Der Schneider himmlischer Hosen) (), was followed by The Gate of Happy Sparrows () and The Temple of Costly Experience (Der Tempel der kostbaren Weisheit) (), set in the early twentieth century in the Chinese capital of Peking, where the author spent two lengthy periods serving as a diplomat in the Italian Legation as a First Secretary (–) and later, Minister (–).[5]

Other works were: Princess in Tartary: a Play for Marionettes in Two Acts and an Epilogue (); Gaia Melodia.

Romanzo (); The Last of the Empresses and the Passing from the Old China to the New (); Twilight of the Kings () - memoir/reminiscences; The Two Imposters () - essays/journals/memoir; The Doge's Ring (); Ghosts of the Spanish Steps () - essays/pen portraits; Ghosts of the Rialto - essays/pen portraits (); Palma ().

References

  1. ^Daniele Manin and the Venetian Revolution of , by Paul Ginsborg, Cambridge University Press,
  2. ^"Aldbar Castle | Canmore". . Retrieved
  3. ^Imperial Designs: Italians in China –, by Shirley Ann Smith, FDUP, Maryland (& Plymouth, UK),
  4. ^Young, Timothy.

    "Guide to Daniele Varè". Yale University Library. Archived from the original on 31 December Retrieved 7 March

  5. ^Vare, Daniele ().

    Daniele vare biography of mahatma gandhi Daniele Varè, Italian Minister to the Imperial Court in China, and diplomat, was the uncle of Maxwell Foster, a Yale alumnus and attorney, who married Elizabeth Vincent in

    The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (Modern Classics&#;ed.). Penguin Modern Classics. p.&#;xii.

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