page_title: Daniele Varè
hierarchical_section_title: Daniele Varè
caption_attribution_description: English: 2017 photograph of old suitcase that belonged to Daniele Varè, or his wife, and then daughter.
context_page_description: Daniele Varè was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers which was republished in 2012 by Penguin Modern Classics. He is also famous for the Laughing Diplomat his autobiography as Italian diplomat.
  Varè's father, Giovanni Battista Varè, a lawyer, of the L'Indipendente newspaper and associate of Daniel Manin: hence as an Italian nationalist he was exiled from northern Italy by the then Austrian authorities.
  Later he was vice-president of the Venetian Assembly and della camera Italiana: ministero Guardasigilli del Regno in 1879.
  Varè spent his early years in the UK, returning to Italy with his Scottish mother at the age of 11. His mother had met Giambattista in Rome in 1872 and married him in 1873. Young Daniele entered the Italian Diplomatic Service in 1907 and was first assigned to China in 1912. In 1909 he had married Elizabeth Bettina Chalmers of Aldbar Castle near Brechin. He returned as Italian Minister to the Republican Government in China between 1927 and 1931. In Beijing he had as a subordinate Galeazzo Ciano. He also served in Geneva, Copenhagen and Luxembourg.
context_section_description: Daniele Varè (12 January 1880 – 27 February 1956) was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (1935) which was republished in 2012 by Penguin Modern Classics. He is also famous for the Laughing Diplomat (John Murray, 1938) his autobiography as Italian diplomat.
  Varè's father, Giovanni Battista Varè (Venice 1817 – Rome 1884), a lawyer, of the L'Indipendente newspaper and associate of Daniel Manin: hence as an Italian nationalist he was exiled from northern Italy by the then Austrian authorities.
  Later he was vice-president of the Venetian Assembly and della camera Italiana : ministero Guardasigilli del Regno (Ministri di grazia e giustizia del Regno d'Italia) in 1879.
  Varè spent his early years in the UK, returning to Italy with his Scottish mother at the age of 11. His mother had met Giambattista in Rome in 1872 and married him in 1873. Young Daniele entered the Italian Diplomatic Service in 1907 and was first assigned to China in 1912. In 1909 he had married Elizabeth Bettina Chalmers of Aldbar Castle near Brechin. He returned as Italian Minister (Ambassador) to the Republican Government in China between 1927 and 1931. In Beijing he had as a subordinate Galeazzo Ciano (later to become Benito Mussolini's Minister of Foreign Affairs). He also served in Geneva, Copenhagen and Luxembourg.
  In 1932, while serving as Ambassador to Denmark, he was forced to resign by the Fascist Regime as many other Italian Diplomats. Hence he originally published in English and only later in Italian.
caption: Suitcase that belonged to Daniele Varè, or his wife, and then to his daughter.
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