Trivia

Granduncle of writer Susanna Tamaro.

Italian writer, best known for "Una vita" (A Life, 1892), "Senilità" (As a Man Grows Older, 1898) and "La Conscienza di Zeno" (The Confessions of Zeno, 1923).

Fifth child of Franz Schmidt, a Austrian Jewish salesman, and his wife Mirjam Felice, who was of Italian descent.

After marrying Livia Veneziani, he converted to Roman Catholicism and took over the factory of his father-in-law in Murano (1898).