Vincenzo La Bella

[2] He also completed around sixty black and white compositions, commissioned to illustrate the Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe.

In the same year, he participated in an illustration contest organized by Vittorio Alinari for a new edition of the Divine Comedy, presented at the I International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin.

[4] Starting from 1901, he created drawings and portraits of artistic and theatrical personalities to the art magazine Il Mezzogiorno artistico, including one of Eleonora Duse.

[6] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was a frequent guest at cultural circles and intellectual salons in Naples, where he portrayed women of Neapolitan aristocracy.

He was a particularly regular visitor to the home of the painter Eduardo Dalbono and the historic Gambrinus café, a gathering place for artists, writers, and politicians, where he also participated in decorating the salon.