Daniele Varè

Daniele Varè (12 January 1880 – 27 February 1956) was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (republished in 2012 by Penguin Modern Classics).

Varè spent his early years in the UK, returning to Italy with his Scottish mother at the age of 11.

[2] In 1932, while serving as Ambassador to Denmark, he was forced to resign by the Fascist Regime as many other Italian Diplomats.

[3] His novels include: The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (Der Schneider himmlischer Hosen) (1926), was followed by The Gate of Happy Sparrows (1937) and The Temple of Costly Experience (Der Tempel der kostbaren Weisheit) (1939), 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).

[4] Other works were: Princess in Tartary: a Play for Marionettes in Two Acts and an Epilogue (1940); Gaia Melodia.