Gino Rocca

Author of over ninety comedies, partly in Venetian language, brought to the theatre by numerous companies and represented up to the present day.

In 1913, having abandoned his studies, he moved to Milan where, having met Benito Mussolini, he became and remained for over twenty years a theatre critic for the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia.

The advent of the First World War had considerable influence on the young writer as demonstrated in the novel Uragano of 1919, in the 1920 drama in three acts Le Liane and La farsa dei nevrastenici.

In 1934 he was appointed director of the first Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale and for the first and only time he directed Goldoni's comedy La bottega del caffè.

He continued to collaborate with various literary and theatrical magazines until his physical condition worsened as a result of a war wound that caused the amputation of his leg.