Mario Benzing

Mario Benzing ( born December 7, 1896 in Como, † November 29, 1958 in Milan, Mario Benzi ) was an Italian writer and translator of German descent, and the father of Enrico Benzing.

After studying in Lausanne and London, he moved to Milan. Between the world wars Mario Benzing wrote numerous novels and biographies of althistorichen personalities such as Messalina, Cleopatra and Queen Christina of Sweden. As a translator from German and English Mario Benzing dedicated his work by the works of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Arthur Schnitzler (the first Italian translation of Fräulein Else, 1928), Jakob Wassermann, Eduard von Keyserling, Ehm Welk, Vicki Baum, Klabund, Gustav Meyrinck, William Simpson, as well as Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll, Herbert George Wells, Sigrid Undset and many others. He used the pseudonym Mario Benzi, as the former foreign laws prescribing a Italianisation the name.