As a literary translator from English, German and French, he specially devoted his work, often as first Italian translator, to Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad (first Italian translation of "The Shadow Line" in 1929), Jack London (first Italian translation of "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" in 1928), Arthur Schnitzler, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence (first Italian translation of "The Rainbow" in 1937), P. G. Wodehouse, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, Edgar Allan Poe, Vicki Baum, H. G. Wells (first Italian translation of "The World of William Clissold" in 1931), Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ehm Welk, Eduard von Keyserling, Jakob Wassermann, Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sigrid Undset, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Guy Boothby, William Le Queux, Sax Rohmer, Rose Macaulay, Richard Marsh, Alice Muriel Williamson and many others, showing a special sensitiveness in translating original poems in Italian verses.
Si dedicò soprattutto alle opere di Joseph Conrad (sua la prima traduzione italiana de "La linea d'ombra", 1929), Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ma anche di Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann ("Schiaccianoci e il re dei topi"), Lewis Carroll ("Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie"), Edgar Allan Poe ("Avventure di Gordon Pym"), Herbert George Wells, Arthur Schnitzler ("La signorina Elsa"), Sigrid Undset, Jakob Wassermann, Eduard von Keyserling, Ehm Welk, Vicki Baum, Klabund, Gustav Meyrink, Compton Mackenzie e molti altri, con particolare cora nel rendere gli inserti poetici in versi italiani.