Emilio Trèves
Italian journalist (1834-1916)
Emilio Salomone Trèves (1834–1916) was an Italian writer and publisher, founder of the Fratelli Treves publishing house.
Biography
Early years
Emilio Salomone Trèves was born on the 31 December, 1834, to Lia Montalcini and Sabato Graziadio Trèves, the Chief Rabbi of Trieste. Lia Montalcini had three daughters from the first marriage: Annetta, Esterina and Rosa. With Sabato, she had three sons: Enrico Michele, Emilio Salomone and the youngest, Giuseppe Emanuele. Trèves attended the Jewish elementary school and the Royal Imperial Gymnasium of Trieste, but there is no record of him pursuing a regular university education (the title ‘Dr’ E. Treves appears only rarely in later documents).
Trèves emerged as a writer at a very young age, he debuted with a drama entitled Ricchezza e miseria (Wealth and Misery), written between 1848 and 1851. His second literary work, the five-act historical drama Il duca di Enghien (The Duke of Enghien), was published in 1853. The play was banned by the Austrian censors because it clearly expressed opposition to Austrian rule and called for the restoration of Trieste’s Italian identity. Trèves was actively involved in the anti-Habsburg unrest in Trieste at that time. When in 1853 his elder brother Enrico Michele was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in prison for keeping anti-Austrian publications, Trèves left Trieste and moved to Paris.
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