Salgari Emilio (1862−1911) was a famous Italian writer, historian, journalist. Salgari Peru owns more than 200 works of the adventure genre. Readers especially liked his art books about pirates.
Writer's childhood and youth
Salgari Emilio was born into the family of a small textile merchant - Luigi Salgari. His mother was an ordinary woman, a Venetian by descent. Her name was Luigi Gradara. The boy grew up romantic. Since childhood, he raved about free life, the sea and distant wanderings. Salgari dreamed of mastering the maritime profession. He continued his education after high school at the Paolo Sarpi nautical 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. A few circumstances prevented his dream from coming true. At school, he studied mediocre. Emilio's favorite subjects were literature and Italian. In addition, he was in poor health. As an ordinary sailor, he nevertheless got a job and sailed to Brindisi on the Adriatic.
Salgari returned from sailing to his homeland in 1881. He went to work as a journalist. Salgari probably realized that being a sailor was not his calling at all. Emilio signed his first literary publications under the pseudonym Captain Salgari. In fact, one of the literary stories he wrote back in school. It was called the Papuans. But Salgari informed the publisher about this 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 worked as an editor at La Valigia.
Salgar family life
In 1892, the writer connected himself with family ties with theatrical actress Ida Peruci. Of course, the romantic Salgari married for love. In subsequent years, 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 were born in the family. His first child was a daughter Fatima (b. 1893). And also fate gave him three sons: Nadir (born in 1894), Romero (born in 1898) and Omar (born in 1900).
During his lifetime, the writer becomes famous. But, despite the fame acquired by Salgari, he lived in need. The writer was not collected by nature. His wife, the actress, was also not practical. He wanted to be a good husband for his wife and tried to provide for his family. In the year he wrote more than three novels and still supplemented them with stories. Salgari was gaining large amounts of work, unable to cope with them. He removed his accumulated fatigue with the help of smoking and alcohol. Because of his optionalness, Salgari was not respected in the literary society. The publishers did not like him either.
Subsequently, the writer in life went hopeless black streak. Some kind of evil rock began to haunt members of his large family. Almost all of his close relatives ended their life tragically. His sons - the middle Romero and the younger Omar - passed away of their own free will. Fatima's daughter died of a disease of the poor - tuberculosis. The last son, Nadir, died in a plane crash. Beloved wife fell ill with mental illness and also died. The writer himself voluntarily passed away on April 25, 1911. He used his sharp weapon to open his stomach. Salgari borrowed this method to die from secular feudal lords of Japan (samurai). The writer’s funeral was modest, almost no one noticed his death.
