Gonario Pinna was an Italian lawyer, essayist, writer and politician. He was the son of criminal lawyer and deputy Giuseppe, who was assassinated in Nuoro in 1908. He completed his studies between Sassari and Florence, participated in World War I and was a prisoner in the Soproniek concentration camp in Hungary. In 1921 he graduated in law in Rome and from 1924 began his work as a lawyer in his city. An anti-fascist, after the war he joined at first the Sardinian Party of Action and from 1955 the Italian Socialist Party in whose ranks he was elected a member of parliament. The historic, Art Nouveau-style house is located in the Seuna neighborhood and its courtyard houses old stores dating back to the time when the Jesuits ruled the Church of Graces.