The following year, he published his first serialized story La Tigre della Malesia, a tale of love and adventure that saw the birth of his most legendary characters: Sandokan a pirate, known as The Tiger of Malaysia, Marianna, his beloved, and Yanez de Gomera, Sandokan's loyal friend, a chain-smoking, unflappable Portuguese adventurer based on himself.
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Salgari was first hired as a young reporter for La Nuova Arena in 1882. The legend had begun a legend he would promote and defend for the rest of his life. When he came back, he showed his friends various artefacts from his travels in the Far East, artefacts he had purchased from some vendor along the Italian coast. He made only one sea voyage in his life, a three month journey from Verona to Brindisi aboard a merchant ship. Though he proclaimed to be a captain, Salgari's had actually failed out of The Naval Institute. He collected stories from sailors returning to port and passed them off has his own. He drew his facts from encyclopaedias, maps and journals. But he is most remembered for the pirates he created, Sandokan and the Black Corsair, characters known throughout Italy and Latin America even by those who have not read their adventures.īut like his many novels, Salgari's autobiography was a mixture of fact and fabrication. Adventures in the American West, Polar Exploration, tales of civil war in Cuba and the Philippines, tales of love and adventure in Africa, Australia and the Far East. He was knighted for his stories, that much was true he founded the adventure genre in Italy, his tales captivating young and old, and inspiring many to take up the pen.Īnd what stories they were. He did meet Buffalo Bill, but at Sherman's Wild West Show in Verona, not, as he claimed, while exploring Nebraska. A remarkable life, envied by many.Įxcept that very little of it was true. His memoirs were filled with adventures in the most exotic lands. Throughout the 20th century illustrations of him on the back of his novels showed him clad in his captain’s uniform. At dinner parties he regaled his hosts with tales from his many voyages, guests to his home would often be shown artefacts acquired in far off lands.
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Here was a man of action that had explored the world and lived many adventures, adventures he would use for the basis of his 80 plus novels and hundreds of short stories to captivate readers worldwide. He claimed to have travelled throughout the American West where he met Buffalo Bill he had explored the Sudan, lived at the Mahdi's court, loved Indian princesses, sailed among the many islands of the Far East.
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At 34, I was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Margherita of Savoy for my contributions to literature." A few years later I became editor of the Arena then at 32 I retired from journalism and dedicated myself to writing novels. I retired at 26 and returned to Verona to become editor of the Nuova Arena where I wrote my first stories: Tay See, The Tiger of Malaysia and others.
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I obtained my Captain's papers at age 17 and began to travel the Seven Seas. At age 14, I entered the Naval Academy in Venice. "I was born in Verona in 1862 to a family of modest merchants. Rossi, "providing a sharp contrast to the stagnant literature of his times." But who was this man that influenced so many? The Emilio Salgari I grew up with was larger than life. "He delivered excitement and stimulated the imagination of Italian readers," wrote adventure writer Vittorio G. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pablo Neruda, Paco Ignacio Taibo, Claudio Magris, and Arturo Perez Reverte are but a few of those that read Salgari's novels in their youth, novels that got them hooked on reading. Many modern writers from Italy, Spain and Latin America first fell in love with stories and storytelling by reading Salgari's adventures.