FUCINI, RENATO. - Novelist, b. April 18, 1843 at Monterotondo (Pisa), d. at Empoli on Feb. 25, 1921.

First noted for I cento sonetti in vernacolo pisano (1872), published under the anagram Neri Tanfucio, he later achieved a mature artistic expression in his descriptions of settings, figures, landscapes - as vivid as those of the macchiaioli - and in his numerous sketches and fine short stories (Le veglie di Neri, 4th ed., Milan 1890; All'aria aperta, Florence 1887; Nella campagna toscana, ibid. 1908) and also in his letters to a friend (Napoli e occhio nudo, ibid. 1887) and in his autobiographical writings (Acqua passata, Foglie al vento, single vol., ibid. 1930), which shed light on his life's vicissitudes: from agricultural surveyor to school inspector. For F., religion was a leftover of superstition; hence the anticlerical motifs, frequent in his prose.

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BIBL.: A. Niccolai, R. F., Pisa 1921; P. Pancrazi, Gli scrittori d'Italia dal Carducci al D'Annunzio, Bari 1937, pp. 91-110; B. Croce, R. F., in La lett. della nuova Italia, III, Bari 1943, pp. 141-48; R. E. de Sanctis, F. e del bozzetto, in Il letto di Procruste, Milan 1943, pp. 465-73; P. Bergellini, Alle veglie con R. F., Florence 1943.

Giovanni Fallani

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