Francesco Chiesa

Francesco Chiesa was born in July 1871 in Sagno, in Ticino, the son of Innocente, a decorative painter, and of Maddalena Bagutti, from a family of painters. After the lyceum in Lugano, he studied law at Pavia and worked for a time in the Lugano courts. A teacher of Italian and art history at the Lugano lyceum from 1897, he directed it from 1914 to 1943 and chaired the cantonal monuments commission. He began the same year, 1897, with poetry. He died in Lugano in June 1973.

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• NovelTempo di marzoFrancesco Chiesa · 1925not translated into EnglishLiterature