Lodovico Nicola di Giura, (also spelt Ludovico Nicola di Giura) (1868-1947), was an Italian surgeon sinologist, translator, writer and traveller. He was from

Chiaromonte Chiaromonte is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Under the pseudonym "Montegrano", it was the case study for Edward C. Banfield's ''The Moral Basis of a Backward Society The ''Moral ...

. He was posted as medical officer of the

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at the Italian embassy in Beijing during the

Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by ...

, he then worked in

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. By 1913 he was working as a civilian doctor. He produced the first complete translation into Italian of the ''

Liaozhai zhiyi ''Liaozhai zhiyi'', sometimes shortened to ''Liaozhai'', known in English as ''Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio'' or ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio'', is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, c ...

'' entitled I racconti fantastici di Liao, called in English The Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. He also translated Li Bai's poetry into Italian and wrote an autobiographical novel. He remained in China from 1900 to 1930. He later became the Prefect and Mayor of

from 1931-1947. The Anthropological Archaeological Museum Il Museo Archeologico Antropologico “Lodovico Nicola di Giura” is named for him.

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* * Italian surgeons Italian translation scholars 1868 births 1947 deaths {{Italy-med-bio-stub