Ercole Luigi Morselli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian writer and dramatist
Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1882
Place of Birth: Pesaro, Marche, Italy
Date of Death: 16-Mar-1921
Profession: writer, science fiction writer
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Ercole Luigi Morselli
- Ercole Luigi Morselli (Pesaro, 19 February 1882 – Rome, 16 March 1921) was an Italian writer and dramatist. In Florence, where his family moved in 1891 following his father, a state counsel who died there in 1895, Morselli attempted to study medicine and literature, but in both cases he did not succeed and had to interrupt his studies.
- In the following years he had a very turbulent life, with many journeys first in Africa and Latin America, then also in England and France.
- Morselli was a friend of Giovanni Papini and Giuseppe Prezzolini.
- After his return to Italy, Morselli started his literary career, which was initially quite difficult, such that his mother had to support him for long time.
- In 1910 his tragicomedy Orione obtained a great success, but Morselli did not reach economic stability until 1919, with the success of Glauco, a drama given in Rome.
- Morselli was also film director and screenplayer.
- He died of tuberculosis in a Roman hospital in 1921. The works of Morselli are based on the classical myths, revisited from a modern viewpoint.
- His most successful works are Orione, a tragicomedy where the main character is a demigod with very unspiritual desires, and Glauco, which describes the story of a fisher who becomes god of the sea but discovers that power does not necessarily bring joy.
- Morselli, portraying antiheroes, represented an alternative to the spirit of D'Annunzio.
- With his short story La donna ragno (The spider woman, 1915), Morselli was in addition one of the precursors of the science fiction in Italy.
- His play Belfagor was used by Claudio Guastalla as subject for the libretto of the opera with the same title (1926) of Ottorino Respighi.
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