Salgari Emilio (1862-1911) was a famous Italian writer, historian and journalist. Peru Salgari owns more than 200 adventure genre works. His art books about pirates were especially fond of readers.
Childhood and early years of the writer
Salgari Emilio was born into the family of a small fabric merchant - Luigi Salgari. His mother was an ordinary woman, Venetian by birth. Her name was Luigi Gradara. The boy grew up romantic. Since childhood, he raved about a free life, the sea and distant wanderings. Salgari dreamed of mastering the maritime profession. After graduating from high school, he continued his education at the Paolo Sarpi Naval School in Venice and graduated from it. But the ambitious young man wanted to become not just a sailor, but to make a career as a captain. Several circumstances prevented his dream from coming true. At the school, he studied mediocre. Emilio's favorite subjects were literature and Italian. Moreover, he was in poor health. As an ordinary sailor on a ship, he nevertheless got a job and sailed to Brindisi along the Adriatic.
Salgari returned from a voyage to his homeland in 1881. He went to work as a journalist. Probably, Salgari realized that being a sailor was not at all his vocation. Emilio signed his first literary publications under the pseudonym Captain Salgari. In fact, one of the literary stories was written by him at school. It was called "Papuans". But Salgari reported this to the publisher in 1883. By this time, he had already written several works in the adventure style. After 1887, Salgari decided to devote himself entirely to literary activity. Then he was already working as an editor at La Valigia.
Salgari family life
In 1892, the writer joined himself in family ties with the theatrical actress Ida Peruzzi. Of course, the romantic Salgari married for love. In the years that followed, he often had to move from place to place because of his work. In 1893, the writer and his family finally decided on their place of residence. He settled in Turin. By that time, four children had already been born in the family. His first child was his daughter Fatima (born in 1893). And also fate gave him three sons: Nadir (born in 1894), Romero (born in 1898) and Omar (born in 1900).
Even during his lifetime, the writer becomes famous. But despite the fame Salgari had acquired, he lived in need. The writer was naturally uncollected. His wife, the actress, was also not very practical. He wanted to be a good husband for his wife and tried to provide for his family. He wrote more than three novels a year and supplemented them with stories. Salgari was picking up large volumes of work, not coping with them. He removed his accumulated fatigue with the help of smoking and alcoholic beverages. Because of his non-binding nature, Salgari was not respected in literary society. Publishers also disliked him.
Subsequently, the writer's life went into a gloomy black streak. Some evil fate began to persecute members of his large family. Almost all of his close relatives ended their lives tragically. His sons - middle Romero and younger Omar - passed away of their own accord. Daughter Fatima died from the disease of the poor - tuberculosis. The last son of Nadir - died in a plane crash. The beloved wife fell ill with mental illness and also died. The writer himself voluntarily passed away on 1911-25-04. He opened his stomach with a sharp weapon. Salgari borrowed this method of passing away from the secular feudal lords of Japan (samurai). The writer's funeral was modest, almost no one noticed his death.
The creative life of Salgari Emily
The most popular were his works in the countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy. The royal family loved to read the writer's books. Queen Margaret in 1897 awarded the writer the Knightly Order of the Corni of Italy. He was also given a small pension. Salgari wrote more than eighty major works of fiction (novels) and one hundred and twenty short stories. The most famous works of the writer are a series of books about Prince Sandokan and the Black Corsair. Salgari did not only adhere to the adventure genre in his narratives. And also he openly condemned the aggressive and colonial wars. At heart, Salgari was not only an adventurer, but also a fighter for justice. His works have been repeatedly filmed. Films and cartoons were filmed based on the plots of Salgari's novels and stories.
