His mother was Margherita Frank Trento, born into a poor family of Slavic extraction.

[1] His father, Ferdinando, reportedly was from an ancient family of southern Dalmatian Italian origins[citation needed] (reportedly, his ancestor's name was Zorzi Giurizzano, and he allegedly came to Istria in the 16th century from Dalmatia[citation needed]).

He completed high school at the Italian Liceo "Carlo Combi" of Capodistria (now Koper, in Slovenia).

After the diploma, he had experiences of study and work in Yugoslavia (Faculty of Humanities in Belgrade and the shooting of a film in Ljubljana).

Other works include the figure of the bishop-reformer Pier Paolo Vergerio, the life of the exiled Istrians in Italy, some events concerning the Slovenian community in Italy (one couple mysteriously killed during World War II in Trieste and the love story between an Italian official and a Slovenian girl; each story is based on facts, using original letters), some fictions set in the Venetian territory and various articles (also effect of his trips as reporter).