Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo (died 1928), whose real name was Aron Hector Schmitz, was born in Trieste on 19 December 1861, the son of Francesco Schmitz, a merchant of Jewish origin. Sent to boarding school near Würzburg, in Germany, he learned German there. Employed for some twenty years at the Unionbank, he published two novels that went unnoticed. Married in 1896 to Livia Veneziani, he joined his father-in-law's ship-paint company. In 1907 he took English lessons with James Joyce. He died on 13 September 1928 at Motta di Livenza, after a car accident.

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• NovelZeno's ConscienceLa coscienza di ZenoItalo Svevo · 1923LiteraturePublic domain