Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini was born on February 23, 1910 in Pazin, Austrian Littoral, Austro-Hungarian Empire [now Pazin, Istria, Croatia]. He was a writer, known for
La rosa rossa (1974),
Les régates de San Francisco (1960) and
La calda vita (1964). He died on April 22, 1965 in Venice, Veneto, Italy.