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Italian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers (including poets) who were born in Italy or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Vittoria Aganoor (1855–1910), poet, letter writer * Milena Agus (born 1959), novelist * Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960), poet, autobiographer, feminist writer * Gabriella Ambrosio (born 1954), novelist, essayist, journalist * Isabella Andreini (1562–1604), playwright, poet, actress * Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510–1556), writer, philosopher, courtesan * Antonia Arslan (born 1938), novelist, critic, translator, educator * Devorà Ascarelli (c. 16th century), poet and translator * Costanza d'Avalos Piccolomini (died 1560), poet * Elisa S. Amore (born 1984), novelist B * Ida Baccini (1850–1911), children's writer * Emma Baeri (born 1942), feminist historian, political scientist * Teresa Bandettini (1763–1837), poet, dancer * Anna Banti (1895–1985), historical novelist, critic, autobiographer * Barbara Baraldi, thriller novelist * Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Battiferri
Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), also called Laura Battiferri Ammannati, was an Italian poet during the Renaissance period. She was born in Urbino, Marche, Italy as the illegitimate daughter of Giovanni Antonio Battiferri from Urbino and Maddalena Coccapani from Carpi, Emilia-Romagna. She published two books of poetry: ''The First Book of Tuscan Works'' (Florence, 1560) and ''The Seven Penitential Psalms… with some Spiritual Sonnets'' (Florence, 1564). She died in 1589 while compiling a third, ''Rime'', which was never published. She married the sculptor, Bartolomeo Ammannati in 1550 and they remained married until her death and they had no children. Early life Laura Battiferri was born in Urbino, Italy. Her father was a wealthy cleric and nobleman of Urbino named Giovanni Antonio Battiferri and her mother was Maddalena Coccapani from Carpi, his concubine. Giovanni enjoyed many privileges due to his status within the inner Vatican circle and as a “familiar” of Pope Paul II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Capriolo
Paola Capriolo (born 1 January 1962) is an Italian novelist and translator. The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin, she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a degree in philosophy in 1996. In 1988, she published her first book ''La grande Eulalia'', a collection of short stories which won the Giuseppe Berto Prize. Her work explores a reality outside of day-to-day life. Myth plays an important role in her writing. She often is inspired by music, including references to music and making use of musical metaphors. Capriolo is also a reviewer for ''Corriere della Sera'' and a translator of German fiction. Her work has been translated into several languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch and Japanese. Selected works Novels/short stories * ''Il nocchiero'' (1989), received the Rapallo Carige Prize in 1990 and was a finalist for the Premio Campiello in 1991 * ''Il doppio re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Campanelli (science Journalist)
Manuela Maria Campanelli (born 1962 in Milan) is an Italian science journalist. She has written articles for ''SuperQuark News'', ''Focus'', '' Oggi'', ''OK Salute'', ''Corriere della Sera'', ''Donna & Mamma'', and ''Corriere Medico e Doctor''. She is a graduate of the University of Milan (Biological Sciences) and earned a master's degree in Scientific Journalism from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) in Trieste, Italy. Manuela Campanelli has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Voltolino Prize for Dissemination of Science in 1999, and the Novo Nordisk Media Prize for her article "Living Well with Diabetes” in 2007. With Luigi Ferini-Strambi (Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor) she wrote the book ''Un Sonno Perfetto'' (''A Perfect Sleep''), which discusses the causes and treatments of sleep disorders A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of an individual's sleep patterns. Some sleep disorders are severe enough to interf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duccia Camiciotti
Duccia Camiciotti (19 March 1928 – 7 July 2014) was an Italian poet, writer and essayist. Studies and early life Camiciotti's studies were founded in the Classics. She attended Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts (Silvio d’Amico Accademia d’Arte Drammatica) under the guidance of director Orazio Costa. She graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Urbino, where she attended the school of literary and aesthetic criticism of humanist Carlo Bo. She became a teacher of Aesthetics at the Sharoff-Staniwslawskji Theater Academy in Rome, Italy. Camiciotti met her husband, Claudio Battistich, in Florence, Italy, where she was his assistant as Director of the Center for Oriental Studies. Camiciotti is an Executive Advisor and President of the Camerata dei Poeti, the city of Florence's Chamber of poetry in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata, and on the Board of Advisors of the Modigliani Art Center of Scandicci. Her five poetry collections have won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Calvetti
Paola Calvetti (born in Milan, 1958) is an Italian novelist and journalist. Personal life She was educated at Liceo Linguistico A. Manzoni (Languages School) and graduated in DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) at Bologna University. Just after leaving school she wrote her first book ''Lo spazio fantastico'' (Emme Edizioni) about dance and mime for children. Paola Calvetti lives in Milan, is married, and has two children, a son and a daughter. Journalism on music and dance After graduation, she started her career as a journalist for the daily newspaper ''la Repubblica'', contributing articles about dance and music. She wrote also for Rai 2, the second state channel, five portraits dedicated to great dance artists: "Jazz City"; "Alvin Ailey’s New York"; "La ville lumière, Roland Petit’s Paris"; "Water Cities, Carolyn Carlson’s Helsinki and Venice and Madrid", starring Antonio Gades and his ballet company; and "The Enchanted Moon", starring Alessandra Ferri, which won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Busacca
alt=The poet circa 1950 Helle Busacca (; San Piero Patti, 21 December 1915 – Florence, 15 January 1996) was an Italian poet, painter, and writer. Life Born in a well-to-do family in San Piero Patti, Province of Messina, Sicily, Helle Busacca lived for part of her youth in her birthplace. Then she moved to Bergamo and later to Milan together with her parents. She graduated with a degree in classical letters at the Royal University of Milan. In the following years, she taught letters in various high schools, moving from city to city: Varese, Pavia, Milan, Naples, Siena, and finally Florence, where she died on 15 January 1996. Her papers, which include correspondence, sketches, and rough drafts of published works, as well as many unpublished manuscripts, are kept in a special collection at the State Archives of Florence. In December 2015, at a conference on the centenary of her birth, the Municipal Library of San Piero Patti was named for her. Poetry Busacca's papers, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Selvaggia Borghini
Maria Selvaggia Borghini (1656–1731) was an Italian poet and translator. Works *''Rime della Signora Lucrezia Marinella, Veronica Gambara Veronica Gambara (29 or 30 November 1485 – 13 June 1550) was an Italian poet and politician. She was the ruler of the County of Correggio from 1518 until 1550. Biography Born in Pralboino (now in the Province of Brescia), in Lombardy, Italy, Ga ... and Isabella della Morra, con giunta di quelle raccolte della Signora Maria Selvaggia Borghini'', Napoli: Bulifon 1693 *''Rime di cinquanta illustri poetesse di nuovo date in luce da Antonio Bulifon'', Napoli: Bulifon 1695 *''Componimenti poetici delle più illustri rimatrici raccolti da Luisa Bergalli'', Venezia, Mora 1726 *Raccolta del Recanati, Venezia 1716 *Raccolta del Redi *''Opere di Tertulliano tradotte in Toscano dalla Signora Selvaggia Borghini, Nobile Pisana'', Roma, Pagliarini 1756 *''Saggio di Poesia'', a cura di Domenico Moreni, Firenze, Margheri 1827 *''Lettera e sonett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laudomia Bonanni
Laudomia Bonanni (8 December 1907 – 21 February 2002) was an Italian writer and journalist. Although she started publishing when she was a teenager, her literary career took off in 1948 when she won a national contest; she went on to be a prolific and award-winning author. The Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale compared her realism to James Joyce’s ''Dubliners'', and other distinguished critics considered her one of the most important and original voices in Italy’s post-World War II literature. Biography Laudomia Bonanni was born in 1907 in L'Aquila, the capital city of the mountainous Abruzzo region of Central Italy, located about 60 miles northeast of Rome. Her parents were Giovanni, a musician turned coal merchant, and Amelia Perilli, a primary school teacher. They named her after a character in ''Niccoló de' Lapi'' (1841), a historical novel by Massimo D'Azeglio. After graduating from the Istituto magistrale in 1924, Bonanni taught in several village schools in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Bonafé
Simona Bonafé (born 24 June 1973) is an Italian politician and journalist who is serving as a member of the country's Chamber of Deputies. Career Born in Varese, Bonafé started her political activity in 2002 with The Daisy party. In 2004 she was appointed Councillor for the Environment in Scandicci, a role she held until 2013. From 2007, she also worked as a journalist for the newspapers ''Corriere di Firenze'' and ''Europa''. Bonafé was elected to the Italian parliament in 2013 with the Democratic Party, and in 2014 she was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the same party collecting over 288,000 preferences. A member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group, she has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she was the parliament's rapporteur on the EU Circular Economy Package and represented the Parliament at the 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Of Bologna
Catherine of Bologna aterina de' Vigri(8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463)Stephen Donovan (1908). " St. Catherine of Bologna". In ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company. was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations, Catherine de' Vigri was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712 by Pope Clement XI. Her feast day is 9 March. Life Catherine came from an upper-class family, the daughter of Benvenuta Mammolini of Bologna and Giovanni Vigri, a Ferrarese notary who worked for Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara. She was raised at Niccolo III's court as a lady-in-waiting to his wife Parisina Malatesta (d. 1425) and became lifelong friends with his natural daughter Margherita d'Este (d. 1478). During this time, she received some education in reading, writing, music, playing the viola, and had access to illuminated manuscript ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Bobba
Margarita Bobba ('' fl''. 1560), was a writer and noblewoman of Casale Monferrato, described by Gioseffantonio Morano as possessing an elevated wit and being well versed both in the Latin and Italian languages and in the art of poetry. She published a number of works, and was praised by Stefano Guazzo in his '' La civil conversazione'' and by Fulgenzio Alghisi in his history of Monferrato Montferrat (, ; it, Monferrato ; pms, Monfrà , locally ; la, Mons Ferratus) is part of the region of Piedmont in northern Italy. It comprises roughly (and its extent has varied over time) the modern provinces of Province of Alessandria, ....Tommaso Vallauri''Storia della poesia in Piemonte'' 2 vols (Turin: Tipografia Chirio e Mina, 1841) I, p. 259, notes that her poetry was published ''sparsamente'': ‘in a scattered manner’, or ‘in various places’. See also * Margarita Balliana and Camilla Soardi a Casalese poet of the same milieu. References People from Casale Monferra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
