Novelist and short-story writer, NICCOLO TUCCI is a native of Florence who has been living in the United States since 1938 and who is now an American citizen. He has written articles about Itay for the Atlantic on his return visits to the old country, and he is presently working on two novels, one in English about an Indian family and one in Indian about some New Yorkers.
NICCOLO TUCCI, who has been living in the United States since 1938 and who is now an American citizen, is a contributor to various Italian and American magazines. He is at present working on two novels: one in English about Italy, and one in Italian about New York. In the following article he tells us what he thinks of writers, editors, and readers.
NICCOLO TUCCI,who has been living in the United Slates since 1938 and who is now an American citizen, had the first look at his native land in fifteen years when he returned to Italy last spring. Much of what he saw appalled him. The “modernization” the desecration of the old monuments, the streamlining of roads as famous as the Appian Way, seem to him a betrayal of Italy’s great heritage. He learned that an Italian archaeologist, Antonio Coderna, was leading a movement in protest, and Mr. Tucci decided to carry the word to America. His first article, “The New Barbariansappeared in the June Atlantic.
NICCOLO TUCCI, who has been living in the United States since 1938, is a contributor to various Italian and American magazines. This is the first of several articles which he is writing “in defense of the ancient Italians and their great culture against the New Barbarians and their great ignoranceHe is now completing two versions of a long historical novel: one in Italian and one in English, for what he calls “the unequalled pleasure of self-plagiarism.”