Aniante made his debut as a journalist for the magazine "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe by Massimo Bontempelli and Curzio Malaparte, but soon revealed himself to be a good playwright.
[1] Opposed to fascism during the thirties, Aniante lived for a long time in Paris, where he published several biographies: Italo Balbo, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Mustapha Kemal, Vie et aventures de Marco Polo.
[2] In Paris, in 1932, he met the Turkish painter Hale Asaf, who had fled to Europe abandoning her husband.
Among Aniante's main works are the avant-garde comedies written for the Teatro degli Indipendenti in Rome were Carmen Darling (1929, performed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia) and his masterpiece La rosa di zolfo (1958, presented by Domenico Modugno at the Venice Prose Festival).
He also published the numerous novels including Figlio del sole (1965), which won the Premio Selezione Campiello.