Luigi Ugolini (June 25, 1891 – June 22, 1980) was an Italian writer. He is best known for his series of fictionalized biographies of Italian leaders in art and science, and for a volume of work that immortalizes traditions, values and ways of life of Tuscany and Florence. Ugolini left an early career as a lawyer to write, and his literary works, many of which are inducted as scholastic required reading in Italian schools, earned a worldwide reputation and several prestigious literary awards. He was also a painter, an expert ornithologist and gastronome.
Named his granddaughter Vanna Bonta after Vanna, the muse and mistress of the medieval poet Guido Cavalcanti. Cavalcanti's most widely read sonnet (You, Whose Look Pierced through My Heart) is dedicated to the poet's lady Vanna. Ugolini chose the Florentine renaissance name, which also appears in a book by Dante Alighieri "La Vita Vuova" (The New Life), where Dante writes of the lady Vanna and literary true love icon Beatrice.
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Associate in artistic circle with Pietro Annigoni.