Back to entry: motta_luigi | Show links blue

Motta, Luigi

(1881-1955) Italian author, prolific for many years, beginning with several tales in collaboration with the already famous Emilio Salgari (1862-1911). Much of Motta's sf output is not identified here, though La Principessa delle rose (1911; trans William Collinge as The Princess of the Roses 1919) gained some English-language readers for its Prediction of World War One, which he describes in grim terms. The Near Future Il tunnel sottomarino ["The Tunnel Under the Sea"] (1912) is typically exuberant. It features the construction of a transatlantic tunnel from New York to France against terrific odds (see Under the Sea), only for a saboteur to destroy it on its opening day, 11 May 1927. The survivors of this Disaster, in underwater gear, trek back to dry land, encountering a suburb of Atlantis en route. [JC]

Luigi Motta

born Bussolengo, Italy: 11 July 1881

died Milan, Italy: 18 December 1955

works (highly selected)

• La Principessa delle rose (Milan, Italy: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1911) [binding unknown/]
  • The Princess of the Roses (London: Stanley Paul and Co, 1919) [trans by William Collinge of the above: hb/]
• Il tunnel sottomarino ["The Tunnel Under the Sea"] (Milan, Italy: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1912) [hb/LB]
  • Il tunnel sottomarino ["The Tunnel Under the Sea"] (Milan, Italy: XX Società Editrice L'Italica, 1920s) [cut: first half of the above: hb/]
  • L'isola di ferro ["The Island of Iron"] (Milan, Italy: XX Società Editrice L'Italica, 1920s) [cut vt: second half of the above: hb/]
• Il raggio naufragatore ["The Wrecking Ray"] (Milan, Italy: Sonzogno, 1927) [binding unknown/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:33 am on 27 July 2024.
<https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/motta_luigi>