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Alba Florio
Alba Florio (21 April 1910 – 31 May 2011) was an Italian poet, the last belonging to the Decadent movement, Decadentism current. Life Alba Florio was born on 21 April 1910 in Scilla, Calabria, Scilla and grew up in Calabria, soaking up its traditions and its ways of thinking and putting everything in verses since her teenage years. Her introverted nature and the fact that she lived in a tiny village in Calabria kept her away from all the cultural and editorial circles, which led to poor diffusion of her work. When ''Estasi e preghiere'' (1929), her first poetry collection, came out, very few people noticed the young poet. The old poet Vincenzo Gerace, that shared her Calabrian origin, was one of the few who did notice wrote an ode about her. ''Oltremorte (1936)'' was the last of Alba's hermetic works. In her writing, she was heavily influenced by Giovanni Pascoli, echoed the dramatic tones of Giuseppe Ungaretti and opened herself to Salvatore Quasimodo's new propositions: in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Florio
Alba Florio (21 April 1910 – 31 May 2011) was an Italian poet, the last belonging to the Decadent movement, Decadentism current. Life Alba Florio was born on 21 April 1910 in Scilla, Calabria, Scilla and grew up in Calabria, soaking up its traditions and its ways of thinking and putting everything in verses since her teenage years. Her introverted nature and the fact that she lived in a tiny village in Calabria kept her away from all the cultural and editorial circles, which led to poor diffusion of her work. When ''Estasi e preghiere'' (1929), her first poetry collection, came out, very few people noticed the young poet. The old poet Vincenzo Gerace, that shared her Calabrian origin, was one of the few who did notice wrote an ode about her. ''Oltremorte (1936)'' was the last of Alba's hermetic works. In her writing, she was heavily influenced by Giovanni Pascoli, echoed the dramatic tones of Giuseppe Ungaretti and opened herself to Salvatore Quasimodo's new propositions: in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
