FARINA, SALVATORE (1846-1918), Italian novelist, was born at Sorso, Sardinia, on Jan. 10, 1846, and after studying law at Turin and Pavia settled in Milan. He wrote Il Signor to (188o), Il Tesoro di Donnina (1873), Amore a cent' occlii (1883), and other volumes. He died Dec. 15, 1918.
See his own Ricordi (1910-13) ; also V. Dendi, Uno romanziere dimenticato: Salvatore Farina (Pisa, 1921) .