Vittorio Ruglioni Biography
Vittorio Ruglioni (Pratovecchio, 6 February 1936 – Venice, 28 March 2003) was an Italian painter. Ruglioni was born in Pratovecchio, a Tuscan town in the province of Arezzo, in 1936. His father Giuseppe was a veterinarian. From an early age, Vittorio showed a strong propensity towards drawing, preferring the watercolor technique in his youth. For work reasons, the father moved to Veneto, to Conegliano, in the province of Treviso. Vittorio, therefore, after his classical high school diploma, enrolled in the degree course in veterinary medicine, following in his father's footsteps. He graduated in Bologna. Meanwhile he meets Tullia, who will become his wife and mother of their two daughters, both born in the 1960s. In 1965 he changed residence again, and even country, moving to Switzerland for work, where he practiced his profession as a veterinarian on the Italian border. He will remain there until 1973. He meets Felice Filippini, whose pictorial studio he often and with great interest frequents and becomes his lifelong friend. He moves back to Venice to work at the port but lives in Mestre with his whole family. He enrolled in the faculty of philosophy in Venice together with his eldest daughter but never defended his thesis, despite having completed all the exams. He also began a long period of acquaintance with the writer Piero Chiara, who wrote about him on several occasions. For the last time, he moved to Gorizia, where he worked in the customs veterinary office on the border with Slovenia. Shortly after retiring, he died in Mestre at the age of 67.
