Name Daniele Vare Died 1956 | Role Diplomat | |
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Books The Maker of Heavenly Trousers, The Gate of Happy Sparrows, The temple of costly experience | ||
Daniele Vare (1880-1956) was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (1935) which was republished in 2012 by Penguin Modern Classics. He is also famous for the Laughing Diplomat (1938) his autobiography as Italian diplomat.
He entered the Italian Diplomatic Service in 1907 and was first assigned to China in 1912. He returned as Italian Minister (Ambassador) to the Republican Government in China between 1927 and 1931. In Beijing he had as a subordinate Galeazzo Ciano (later to become Benito Mussolini's Minister of Foreign Affairs).
In 1932, while serving as Ambassador to Denmark, he was forced to resign by the Fascist Regime as many other Italian Diplomats. Hence he originally published in English and only later in Italian.
Novels
The Maker of Heavenly Trousers was followed by the Gate of Happy Sparrows (1937) and The Temple of Costly Experience (1937), set in the early twentieth century in the Chinese capital of Peking, where the author spent two lengthy periods serving as a diplomat in the Italian Legation as a First Secretary (1912-1920) and later, Minister (1927-1931).