Memoir of Italo Svevo

Livia Veneziani Svevo was born in 1874 to a family of middle-class Catholics. After a childhood spent partly in Marseille, she returned to Trieste with her family in 1885. At age eighteen she struck up a friendship with a distant Jewish cousin named Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), a bank employee and would-be writer thirteen years her senior. They married in 1896. Declared a Jew under Italian racial laws, she fled Trieste during World War II and wrote Memoir of Italo Svevo while in hiding Isabel Quigly has translated Goffredo Parise's Solitudes, and Giorgio Bassani's Garden of the Finzi-ContinisSvevo, Livia V. is the author of 'Memoir of Italo Svevo', published 1991 under ISBN 9780910395588 and ISBN 0910395586.