Another favorite of postwar readers
Alongside the figures of Guido Da Verona and of Pitigrilli that of Mario Mariani cannot pass over in silence, as he was a polemicist, a philosopher and a courageous politician, an apostle of libertarian ideals, but also a very successful writer around the XNUMXs. This is why it is necessary to remember him together with the other two characters, despite the fact that he has sold less than them.
If for From Verona e Pitigrilli we can safely talk about 300.000 copies for the luckiest books, for Mariani it must be said that his greatest best seller, The house of man, released in 1918, reached 70.000 copies. And for the other titles lower figures, oscillating between 30 and 60.000 copies. The sales volumes of his books were therefore lower; but in the three, four years after the end of the world war Mariani published about fifteen works, and adding up their circulations one arrives at an overall figure that places him among the most loved writers of the period. A complex and controversial personality, between idealism and pornography.
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