Pitigrilli
Sign in to savethumb|Pitigrilli in 1950 Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Dino Segre (9 May 1893 – 8 May 1975), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaina (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the list of prohibited books by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use (cocaina being cocaine) and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death. He spent his later decades of life as a Catholic himself.
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Dino Segre, known by the pseudonym Pitigrilli, was an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Turin on May 6, 1893, he was educated at the University of Turin. He wrote in Italian and held citizenship in the Kingdom of Italy and Italy. His unmarried partner was Amalia Guglielminetti.
Segre died in Turin on May 8, 1975. He authored 36 works, including *Mosè e il cavalier Levi*, *Lo specchio e l'enimma*, and *Diccionario de la sinceridad*. Other notable titles are *להט האהבה* and *חגורת הצניעות*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1975
- Works
- 36
Top works
- להט האהבה
- Moise et Monsieur Levy (Mosè e il cavalier Levi)
- Lo specchio e l'enimma
- Diccionario de la sinceridad
- חגורת הצניעות
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dino
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Turin
- Place of death
- Turin
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- University of Turin
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Image
- Pitigrilli.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pitigrilli
- date of death
- 1975-05-08
- unmarried partner
- Amalia Guglielminetti
- name in native language
- Dino Segre
- writing language
- Italian
- pseudonym
- Pitigrilli
- date of birth
- 1893-05-09
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- Biography
- Early life and family
- Career
- Fascism and World War II
- Postwar years
- Collaboration with the Fascist regime
- Works
- English translations
- References
- External links
thumb|Pitigrilli in 1950 Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Dino Segre (9 May 1893 – 8 May 1975), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaina (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the list of prohibited books by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use (cocaina being cocaine) and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death. He spent his later decades of life as a Catholic himself.
Pitigrilli founded the literary magazine Grandi Firme, which was published in Turin from 1924 to 1938, when it was banned under the antisemitic Italian racial laws of the Fascist government. Although baptized a Catholic, Segre was classified as Jewish at that time. His father was Jewish, and Pitigrilli had married a Jewish woman, although they had long lived apart. He had worked in the 1930s as an informant for the Italian fascist secret service OVRA but was dismissed in 1939 after being exposed in Paris.
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