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Giovanni Pastrone was born on 13 September 1883 in Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Cabiria (1914), Julius Caesar (1909) and Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916). He died on 27 June 1959 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Marella Agnelli was born on 4 May 1927 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was married to Giovanni Agnelli. She died on 23 February 2019 in Turin, Italy.
- Agnelli was the son of Edoardo Agnelli (1892-1935) and Virginia Bourbon Del Monte (1899-1945) and grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of the Italian automobile industry. When he was 14 years old, his father died in a plane crash. In 1945 his mother died in a car accident. He then grew up with his grandfather of the same name, who founded the "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" (FIAT) in 1899. At the beginning of the Second World War, the young Agnelli initially reported for military service to fight for the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on the Russian and African fronts. After 1943, however, the tank officer moved to the anti-fascist resistance camp. In the same year he joined the FIAT company. After 1945, Agnelli studied law at the University of Turin, which he completed with a doctorate. In the post-war period he became the playboy of high society. While still studying, he joined FIAT headquarters as Vice President following the death of his grandfather in 1946.
However, the automobile company was initially expertly managed by manager Vittorio Valletta as president until Agnelli became more involved in the company's management. In 1963, Agnelli joined the company's management as general director, and in 1966 he replaced Valletta as president. Agnelli held this position until 1996. The new company boss led FIAT beyond the actual automotive sector with the product range from Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari to a group with a wide range of technologies, ranging from machines of all kinds, to chemical and biotechnology, industrial equipment and aviation technology, to press publishing. In addition to large Italian daily newspapers, the FIAT company also included department stores, financing companies and iron and metal processing companies.
Agnelli also bought the professional football club "Juventus Turin". In addition, the CEO served as President of the Italian Employers' Association from 1974 to 1976. In May 1987, Agnelli founded the superholding "Giovanni Agnelli & Co." for the management of the group, which was the responsibility of the council of limited partners. In addition to Agnelli, who secured a majority shareholding, it also included his younger brother Umberto Agnelli (born 1934) and FIAT CEO Cesare Romiti. After managing several FIAT subsidiaries, Umberto Agnelli headed the group's international activities from 1968 onwards. From 1970 to 1976 he was CEO of FIAT. At the same time, he had also been involved with the Italian Christian Democrats since the mid-1970s, for which he entered the Senate in 1976. In 1980, Umberto Agnelli handed over the role of chairman of the board to Cesare Romiti to run the family holding company "Istituto Finanziario Industriale" (IFI).
In 1990, Giovanni Agnelli, in competition with Daimler-Benz AG, achieved the 60% takeover of the Spanish commercial vehicle manufacturer "Enasa". In the first half of the decade he was able to avert the group's crisis by taking on partners for the first time who, such as Deutsche Bank, did not belong to the Agnelli family. In 1995, the Agnelli family became the main shareholder in the "Club Méditerranée". In 1996, Agnelli resigned as chairman of the FIAT board of directors in favor of Cesare Romiti. After three decades, he formally handed over the FIAT corporate management. However, as FIAT honorary president and boss of the Agnelli clan, he was able to maintain his decision-making power in the group. Agnelli was also represented on the supervisory boards of several companies and in several international economic advisory committees and cultural institutions. He continued to be a life member of the Italian Senate. He has also been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2000.
In 1998, Paolo Fresco, former vice president of General Electric (GE), became the successor to Chairman Romiti. In the same year, Agnelli's grandson, John Elkann, a son from his daughter Margherita's first marriage, was appointed to the board of directors and the executive board of FIAT AG. Agnelli was married to Princess Marella Caracciolo di Casstagneto since 1953, who gave him two children; the son committed suicide in 2000; the daughter became a writer and painter. Therefore, John Elkann was considered the designated crown prince of the family and corporate patriarch, who was supposed to ensure the continuity of the family ownership in the future. In 2001, Agnelli also appointed his grandson as his successor in FIAT management. In October 2002, however, the traditional group hit the headlines due to another serious crisis, which was triggered by a slump in sales in the automotive sector and the company's enormous debt.
Involved in negotiations between the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi and the FIAT management tried to restructure the company from ten banks. There was a threat of the closure of several of the group's production facilities, particularly in Termini Imerese, Sicily. The group sold off several subsidiaries in order to reduce its debt.
Giovanni Agnelli died on January 24, 2003, at the age of 81, at his estate in Turin. - Giovanni Battista Judica Cordiglia was born on 9 August 1939 in Erba, Lombardy, Italy. He died on 13 April 2024 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Only son of Fiat titan Giovanni Agnelli, and his wife Marella Agnelli, Edoardo served briefly on the board of directors of the family-owned soccer team, Juventus, but was more interested in mysticism than in making cars. He studied religion at Princeton, and took part in a world day of prayer in Assisi in 1986. Although he seemed burdened by the mantle of his surname, after he was busted in Kenya for drug possession in 1990, he announced at a press conference that he was taking over Fiat. This stunt earned him Gianni's ire, who passed Edoardo over in favor of a nephew. Edoardo committed suicide by jumping off a bridge in Turin; Gianni himself joined police at the scene. Edoardo never married, but had an illegitimate son whom Gianni never recognized. John Elkann, the eldest child of Gianni's daughter, was named Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. in 2010.
- Giovanni Arpino was born on 27 January 1927 in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]. He was a writer, known for Scent of a Woman (1992), The Young Nun (1964) and Boccaccio '70 (1962). He was married to Caterina Brero. He died on 10 December 1987 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Amleto Novelli was born on 18 October 1881 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Quo Vadis? (1913), Julius Caesar (1914) and Malombra (1917). He died on 16 April 1924 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Cesare Pavese was born on 9 September 1908 in Santo Stefano Belbo, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Girlfriends (1955), Il diavolo sulle colline and Fuga in Francia (1948). He died on 27 August 1950 in Turin, Italy.- Giorgio Faletti was born on 25 November 1950 in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Notte prima degli esami (2006), The Killer in My Eyes and Appunti di un venditore di donne (2021). He was married to Roberta Bellesini. He died on 4 July 2014 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Lidia Quaranta was born on 6 March 1891 in Turin, Italy. She was an actress, known for Beffa di Satana (1915), Lo scrigno dei milioni (1914) and La corsa alla morte (1917). She died on 5 March 1928 in Turin, Italy.
- Primo Levi was born on 31 July 1919 in Turin, Italy. He was a writer, known for The Truce (1997), Jövöbéli históriák (1971) and I riassuntini (2018). He was married to Lucia Morpurgo. He died on 11 April 1987 in Turin, Italy.
- Achille Judica Cordiglia was born on 9 September 1933 in Paderno Dugnano, Lombardy, Italy. He died on 21 January 2015 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Enza Giovine was an actress, known for Without Pity (1948), I Buddenbrook (1971) and La pietra di luna (1972). She died on 4 November 1998 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Luigi Maggi was born on 21 December 1867 in Turin, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1908), I conquistatori (1921) and Satana (1912). He died on 22 August 1946 in Turin, Italy.- Emilio Salgari was born on 21 August 1862 in Verona, Austrian Empire [now Verona, Veneto, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Mystery of the Black Jungle (1954), Carthage in Flames (1960) and El corsario negro (1944). He was married to Ida Peruzzi. He died on 25 April 1911 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Ignazio Leone was born on 19 April 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Totò e Cleopatra (1963), Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963) and Caesar Against the Pirates (1962). He died on 30 December 1976 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Actor
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Enrico Gemelli was born in 1841 in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Cabiria (1914), The Heart of a Police Officer (1913) and For King and Country (1913). He died on 7 May 1926 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Vitaliano Brancati was born on 24 July 1907 in Pachino, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer, known for Anni facili (1953), Journey to Italy (1954) and Don Cesare di Bazan (1942). He was married to Anna Proclemer. He died on 25 September 1954 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Carolina Invernizio was born on 28 March 1851 in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy. She was a writer, known for Il nano rosso (1917), Satanella (1919) and Piccoli martiri (1917). She died on 27 November 1916 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Adriana Innocenti was born on 16 October 1926 in Portico e San Benedetto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Lobster for Breakfast (1979), Verdi (1982) and Il maresciallo Rocca (1996). She was married to Piero Nuti. She died on 4 March 2016 in Turin, Italy.
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Ernesto Maria Pasquali was born in 1883 in Montù Beccaria, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and director, known for Oltre la vita, oltre la morte (1916), For King and Country (1913) and La contessa Arsenia (1916). He died on 9 May 1919 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Actor
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- Music Department
Gipo Farassino was born on 11 March 1934 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for La bufera (1975), Seguirà una brillantissima farsa... (1973) and City Under Siege (1974). He was married to Lia Scutari and Maria Liliana Crepaldi. He died on 11 December 2013 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Director
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Roberto Omegna was born on 28 May 1876 in Turin, Italy. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Uno sguardo al fondo marino (1936), Passione slava (1919) and Canaglia dorata (1921). He died on 19 November 1948 in Turin, Italy.- Alberto Pestalozza was born in 1851 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. She died in 1934 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Ciro Imparato was born on 15 December 1962 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Cuori rubati (2002), Aida of the Trees (2001) and Sense of Wonder: Under the Colossus (2014). He died on 18 March 2015 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Writer
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Arrigo Frusta was born on 26 November 1875 in Turin, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Othello (1914), Grenadier Roland (1911) and La bisbetica domata (1913). He died in 1965 in Turin, Italy.- Vittoria Lottero was born on 4 March 1937 in Savona, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Uova fatali (1977), Il caso Martello (1991) and La bufera (1975). She died on 13 January 2009 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Carlo Borghesio was born on 24 June 1905 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Due cuori (1943), Il campione (1943) and Due milioni per un sorriso (1939). He died on 12 November 1983 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Actor
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Umberto Mozzato was born on 28 August 1879 in Bologna, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Il povero Piero (1921), Cabiria (1914) and I borghesi di Pontarcy (1920). He died on 6 November 1947 in Turin, Italy.- Director
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Daniele Segre, director (Alessandria 1952), is the author of "the cinema of reality", feature films and theatrical performances. He made his debut as a photographer in Turin in the 1970's; his first films focus on problems of disadvantaged youth groups (Perché droga, 1976; Il potere dev'essere bianconero, 1978; Ragazzi di stadio, 1980) and on the dignity of difficult screw (screw gallery, 1984 Portrait of a small drug dealer, 1984). He produced and directed the feature films Testadura (1983), Manila Paloma Blanca (1992), Vecchie (2002), Mitraglia e il verme (2004) and the documentary film Morire di lavoro (2008), about the construction work-related accidents in Italy. In 2005 he produced a HD video on the collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the CRT Foundation in Turin. His works are almost always transmitted by public networks, and screened atin various national and international festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Annecy Film Festival among others. He received several awards, including the prize Giuliani De Negri at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Tulip Festival international Istanbul, the CICAE award at the Italian Film Festival of Annecy, the Filmmakers award, NICE award in New York.
In 1981 he founded the production company I Cammelli and in 1989 the eponymous Scuola Video di Documentazione Sociale (School of Social Documentaries and Videos) 1989/1997. Since 1996 he is Professor of Directing at the National School of Cinematography-Centro Sperimentale di Cinema in Rome and since 2004 at the University of Pisa.
In 2010 he produced three documentary films: the portrait of the Genoese photographer Lisetta Carmi (Lisetta Carmi, un'anima in cammino, 2010), that of film critic Morando Morandini (Je m'appelle Morando. Alfabeto Morandini, 2010) and that of publisher Luciano Lischi (Luciano Lischi, editore, 2010).
In 2011 realizes Sic Fiat Italia, in 2012 E' viva la Torre di Pisa and Luciana Castellina, comunista. In 2013, Michelangelo Pistoletto and 76847 Giuliana Tedeschi.
In 2014 by the Laboratory for Experimental Cinematography Center that produces rails on the condition of prisoners and of prisoners and prison officers of Sollicciano prison (FI) produced by CSC production and RAI Cinema and broadcasted by Speciale TG1
In November 2012 at the Quirinale he was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano; Always in November 2012 he received the lifetime achievement award "Maria Adreiana Prolo".
In July of 2014 he was appointed headmaster of the Abruzzo headquarters of the Experimental Centre of Cinematography - being Audiovisual Reportage.
In June 2015 he was awarded the Diploma Honoris Cause by the Experimental Centre of Cinematography for "Reportage topical history".
In 2015 realizes Morituri, a film which completes the trilogy of Vecchie and Mitraglia e il Verme.
Morituri was invited to the Turin Film Festival in November 2015 and in April 2016 he made his debut at the Teatro Nobelperlapace of San Demetrio ne 'Vestini (AQ).
In 2016 he realized "Nome di Battaglia Donna", protagonists partisan women who participated in the resistance against the Fascists and the Nazis between 1943 and 1945.- Vanna Brosio was born on 18 April 1943 in Turin, Italy. She was an actress, known for Safety Catch (1970), Dal sabato al lunedì (1962) and White Horses of Summer (1975). She died on 19 June 2010 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Daniela Caroli was born on 8 February 1947 in Bra, Piedmont, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), Testa in giù, gambe in aria (1972) and Movie Rush - La febbre del cinema (1976). She died on 12 June 2011 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Claudia Giannotti was born on 19 February 1937 in Campobasso, Molise, Italy. She was an actress, known for Nel mondo di Alice (1974), Ritratto di signora (1975) and Stunt Squad (1977). She died on 26 July 2020 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Bruno Segre was born on 4 September 1918 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He died on 27 January 2024 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Carlo Enrici was born on 2 February 1924 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor, known for La pietra di luna (1972), Il signore di Ballantrae (1979) and Ciak si muore (1974). He died on 30 January 2018 in Turin, Italy.
- Claudio Parachinetto was born on 17 May 1947 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Screw Loose (1999), Ogni lasciato è perso (2001) and Cinque storie inquietanti (1987). He was married to Marcella Amoruso. He died on 10 March 2020 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Italian stage actress who made a handful of films. She was the fourth child of merchant Alberto Adani and his wife Pia Capri, and was born in Modena on October 7, 1913. Although she had no antecedents involved in the theatre, her two sisters had married into theatrical families, and her interest in the stage developed early. Her brother-in-law, actor Ernesto Sabbatini, introduced her at fifteen to Russian-born theatre director Tatyana Pavlova, who took Laura into her company. Within a brief few years, she had become one of the most respected and acclaimed stage actresses in Italy, appearing in leading roles with a variety of prestigious companies. In 1935, she and actor Renzo Ricci formed their own theatrical company, which was a success until forced to close due to the Second World War. In her company, and in others during the war, she played the classic leading roles for women, including Ophelia, Marguerite Gauthier, and Juliet. She performed throughout the 1940s and '50s in important plays such as Tobacco Road, The Typewriter, and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (in which she also successfully toured America). She had made her film debut at twenty in Aria di Paese (1933) and appeared in only twelve more feature films (and a smattering of television roles) over the next fifty years. For director Giacomo Vaccari, she appeared in television productions of La fine della signora Cheyney (from Frederick Lonsdale's The Last of Mrs. Cheyney) and the miniseries La Pisana (1960). In 1947, she married Duke Luigi Visconti di Modrone, brother of the famous director Luchino Visconti, who had both directed her and acted opposite her in the theatre. She was widowed twenty years later. Two years later, she married a second time, in 1969, to Admiral Ernesto Balbo Bertone, Count of Sambuy, Duke of Nocera. With her second husband she went to live in a villa at the foot of Superga Hill, near Turin. Adani died at 82 on August 30, 1996 in nearby Moncalieri, survived by her second husband. She is buried in the Chieri cemetery, near her home.- Franco Sportelli was born on 27 November 1908 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor, known for Miseria e nobiltà (1954), Totò e Cleopatra (1963) and Ci sposeremo a Capri (1956). He died on 10 December 1970 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Renzo Ozzano was born on 4 August 1934 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor, known for Ciak si muore (1974), Fango bollente (1975) and The Boxer (1972). He died on 29 August 2017 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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- Producer
Ferruccio Casacci was born on 28 April 1934 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Pure Juice (1990), Selfie (2010) and Uova fatali (1977). He died on 13 April 2011 in Turin, Italy.- Alberto Marché was an actor, known for Uova fatali (1977), Giovanna alla riscossa (1966) and La bufera (1975). He died on 21 November 2016 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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- Director
Felice Minotti was born on 19 November 1887 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor and production manager, known for The Little Adventurers (1939), Life of Donizetti (1947) and La trilogia di Maciste (1920). He died on 21 March 1963 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.- Vittorio Bestoso was born on 4 September 1953 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Teneramente Licia (1987), Licia dolce Licia (1987) and The House with Arched Windows (2000). He died on 21 February 2023 in Ivrea, Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Charles-Lucien Lépine was born on 3 March 1859 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Charles-Lucien was a director and writer, known for Mephisto's Son (1906), Unquenchable Thirst (1906) and Scales of Justice (1907). Charles-Lucien died on 15 January 1941 in Turin, Italy.- His grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli, founded an automobile factory in Turin in 1899, which subsequently became the largest car manufacturer in Italy as "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" (FIAT). Agnelli lost his parents, Edoardo Agnelli and Virginia Bourbon del Monte, in an airplane accident in 1935 and in a car accident in 1945. After school, Agnelli studied law at the University of Turin, graduating with a doctorate in 1959. Agnelli worked for FIAT in leading positions from 1959. While his older brother Gianni was president of the entire group from 1966 to 1996, Umberto took over the management of several subsidiaries: from 1960 to 1971 he headed the insurance company S.A.I. and temporarily also FIAT France.
From 1965 to 1988 he was chairman of the board of Piaggio & Co. In 1970, Agnelli was appointed to the headquarters of the parent company, where he worked as Amministratore Delegato until 1980. Agnelli married Allegra Caracciolo in 1974, with whom he had three children. In 1976, his brother made him deputy chairman of the board of directors of FIAT. Agnelli's political involvement also began during this time: in 1976 he ran for the leading and conservative party "Democrazia Cristiana", for which he entered the Senate. After Agnelli was replaced as Amministratore Delegato by Cesare Romiti in 1980, he subsequently worked in management positions for other FIAT subsidiaries and holding companies such as IFI and IFIL as well as FIAT Auto SpA.
In 1987, Agnelli was promoted to vice president of the newly founded holding Giovanni Agnelli & C. SpA. In 1993 he resigned from his managerial position, whereupon his son Giovanni Alberto was appointed as the future boss of FIAT. However, when Agnelli's son died of cancer in 1997, company boss Gianni Agnelli appointed his grandson John Elkann as his successor at the top of the company. As a result of the death of his older brother and company boss Gianni Agnelli in January 2003, Umberto Agnelli became the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FIAT Group in May 2003. Elkann was elevated to vice president. During the restructuring measures that followed, Ferrari boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo joined the supervisory board of FIAT SpA at the end of February 2003.
The group also sold off several subsidiaries to reduce its debt.
Umberto Agnelli died on May 27, 2004 in Turin. - Actor
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Eugenio Testa was born on 6 October 1892 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for La girondola di fuocco (1920), Jack (1913) and La complice (1915). He died on 11 October 1957 in Turin, Italy.- Antonio Tarantino was born on 10 April 1938 in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He was an actor, known for Fare la vita (2001). He died on 21 April 2020 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Giovanni Moretti was born on 1 May 1936 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for Gamma (1975), La bufera (1975) and Uova fatali (1977). He died on 10 April 2019 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- The Duke of Aosta was born on 13 January 1869 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was married to Hélène d'Orléans. He died on 4 July 1931 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
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Ernesto Vaser was born on 31 March 1876 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Il cuore non invecchia (1913), Ombre e bagliori (1916) and Il rimedio per le donne (1914). He died on 23 November 1934 in Turin, Italy.