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(Turin, 25 June 1899 – Milan, 10 May 2002) Born into a patriotic and liberal family of the Emilian bourgeoisie (his grandfather Venceslao Mucchi was president of the Court of Cassation in Turin, his uncle Agostino, a conspirator with Ciro Menotti in the 1831 uprisings, repaired and died in Grenoble in 1839). His father Anton Maria, born in Reggio Emilia on 27 May 1871, is an appreciated painter, from whom Gabriele learned his first notions of drawing. Read the full biography

(Turin, 25 June 1899 – Milan, 10 May 2002) Born into a patriotic and liberal family of the Emilian bourgeoisie (his grandfather Venceslao Mucchi was president of the Court of Cassation in Turin, his uncle Agostino, a conspirator with Ciro Menotti in the 1831 uprisings, repaired and died in Grenoble in 1839). His father Anton Maria, born in Reggio Emilia on 27 May 1871, is an appreciated painter, from whom Gabriele learned his first notions of drawing. The mother is Countess Lucia Tracagni of Salò sul Garda, eldest daughter of Count Fabio Tracagni of Desenzano. He spent his adolescence among famous people who frequented his father's atelier, such as Leonardo Bistolfi, Sibilla Aleramo, his spiritual guide "Uncle Anni", the philosopher Annibale Pastore, Cesare Lombroso, Eusapia Palladino, the celebrated Italian "medium" who Arthur Conan Doyle praised Giovanni Cena and Auguste Rodin in his History of Spiritualism.