Francesco Carandini

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Francesco Carandini (13 November 1858 - 23 October 1946) was an Italian poet and historian.

Biography

He was born in

Torino, Parma, Crema and Biella, vice-Prefect of Rome
during the 1915-1918 war, then prefect in Forlì, Verona and Udine. In May 1923 he resigned rather than serve the Fascist government and devoted himself to historical studies.

He passionately loved Parella, where in 1935 he built a villa, the "house on the hill" he had long dreamed of and desired.

Bibliography

Of the seventy writings of Carandini, the most known is "Old Ivrea" which still represents a unique source of news, facts, data about the past of Ivrea.

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