# Mario Benzing

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{{Short description|Italian novelist and translator (1896–1958)}}
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thumb|Benzing circa 1925
'''Mario Benzing''' (7 December 1896 – 29 November 1958) was an Italian novelist and translator of German origins, often forced to sign as '''Mario Benzi''' because of the period's fascist Italian laws.

== Career ==
Born in [Como](/source/Como), Italy, Benzing settled in [Milan](/source/Milan). During the [First World War](/source/First_World_War), he enlisted in the [Italian Army](/source/Italian_Army) [Medical Corps](/source/Medical_Corps_(Italy)) and in Milan, he made the acquaintance of [Ernest Hemingway](/source/Ernest_Hemingway).

Between the two [World Wars](/source/World_Wars), he wrote several novels and biographies of historical figures in Italian. These figures included [Messalina](/source/Messalina), [Cleopatra](/source/Cleopatra) and the Queen [Christina of Sweden](/source/Christina_of_Sweden). As a literary translator from English, German and French, he specially devoted his work, often as first Italian translator, to [Rudyard Kipling](/source/Rudyard_Kipling), [Joseph Conrad](/source/Joseph_Conrad) (first Italian translation of ''[The Shadow-Line](/source/The_Shadow-Line_(novel))'' in 1929), [Jack London](/source/Jack_London) (first Italian translation of ''[The Mutiny of the Elsinore](/source/The_Mutiny_of_the_Elsinore_(novel))'' in 1928), [Arthur Schnitzler](/source/Arthur_Schnitzler), [Lewis Carroll](/source/Lewis_Carroll), [D. H. Lawrence](/source/D._H._Lawrence) (first Italian translation of ''[The Rainbow](/source/The_Rainbow)'' in 1937), [P. G. Wodehouse](/source/P._G._Wodehouse), [Edgar Wallace](/source/Edgar_Wallace), [Hugh Walpole](/source/Hugh_Walpole), [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe), [Vicki Baum](/source/Vicki_Baum), [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells) (first Italian translation of ''[The World of William Clissold](/source/The_World_of_William_Clissold)'' in 1931), [Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann](/source/Ernst_Theodor_Amadeus_Hoffmann), [Ehm Welk](/source/Ehm_Welk), [Eduard von Keyserling](/source/Eduard_von_Keyserling), [Jakob Wassermann](/source/Jakob_Wassermann), [Joseph Hergesheimer](/source/Joseph_Hergesheimer), [Robert Louis Stevenson](/source/Robert_Louis_Stevenson), [Helen Hunt Jackson](/source/Helen_Hunt_Jackson), [Sigrid Undset](/source/Sigrid_Undset), [Edgar Rice Burroughs](/source/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs), [Guy Boothby](/source/Guy_Boothby), [William Le Queux](/source/William_Le_Queux), [Sax Rohmer](/source/Sax_Rohmer), [Rose Macaulay](/source/Rose_Macaulay), [Richard Marsh](/source/Richard_Marsh_(author)), [Alice Muriel Williamson](/source/Alice_Muriel_Williamson) and many others, showing a special sensitiveness in translating original poems in Italian verses.

== External links ==
* [http://www.benzing.it/eng.mario.htm The biography and his translations]

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Category:Italian people of German descent
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