NOVARO, ANGELO-SILVIO. - Writer and poet, born at Diano Marina on 12 Nov. 1868, died at Imperia on 10 March 1938.
N. began his activity very early, and found his finest inspiration in singing of his son Jacopo, who fell at a very young age in the First World War. N. was an artist of formal finish, who only in his best works, such as the prose pieces of Il fabbro armonioso (Milan 1919) and the lyrics of Piccolo Orfeo (ibid. 1929), rose to discreetly spiritual accents. A writer of a lingering and collected vein, he was effective especially in composing for children, and poured his best qualities into the delicate correspondences and vignettes of a childlike world. Also worthy of mention among his works are the poems of Il cestello (ibid. 1910), the tales of La bottega dello stregone (ibid. 1910), and the prose pieces of Dio è qui (ibid. 1926). In the lyric poem La Madre di Gesù (ibid. 1936), he evoked the life of the Virgin in accents of sincere emotion.