Amalia Guglielminetti (4 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian

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Life

Amalia, who had two sisters, Emma and Erminia, and a brother, Ernesto, was born in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

to Pietro Guglielminetti and his wife Felicita Lavezzato. Her great-grandfather had moved from

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to Turin around 1858, where he had established a timber business. He invented a water canteen, at that time made of wood, which became popular. Her father died in 1886, and the family moved in with a grandfather, who sent Amalia to a religious school. She started writing in 1901 for the ''

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'' where her poetry was published in the Sunday supplement. Her poetry then appeared in ''Voci di Giovinezza'', published in 1903, and was dedicated to her father. Her main works are the poetry collections ''Le seduzioni'' (1908) and ''L'insonne'' (1913) and the prose collections ''I volti dell'amore'' (1913) and ''Quando avevo un amante'' (1923). She had an affair with

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with whom she exchanged a series of love letters in 1907-09, published posthumously. Between 1916 and 1925 she wrote books for children: ''Fiabe in versi'' (1916); ''La reginetta Chiomadoro'' (1923); ''Il ragno incantato'' (1923) and ''La carriera dei pupazzi'' (1925). In addition, she contributed to '' Lidel'', a nationalist women's magazine which was in circulation in the period 1919–1935. In the following years she became romantically involved with

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(Dino Segre). The relationship became so intense that she had a nervous breakdown. She eventually recovered, and felt that the experience had made her stronger. In 1935 Guglielminetti moved to Rome to pursue a career in journalism, but returned to Turin in 1937. She died from complications resulting from an accident during an air-raid. She had always been a solitary and somewhat depressed figure.

Bibliography

* Benso, Ornella: Una relazione letteraria. Amalia Guglielminetti e Guido Gozzano, Turín, 1944. * Gastaldi, M.: Amalia Guglielminetti, Milán, 1930. * Guglielminetti, Marziano: La Musa subalpina. Amalia e Guido, Pastonchi e Pitigrilli, Florencia, L. S. Olschki, 2007. * Ferraro, Alessandro: La corsa del levriero. Amalia Guglielminetti nel Novecento italiano, in Amalia Guglielminetti, La rivincita del maschio, edit by Alessandro Ferraro, Genova, Sagep, 2014. * Ferraro, Alessandro: Il frutto dietro la foglia. 1928 e 1934: Amalia Guglielminetti denunciata due volte per oltraggio al pudore, «Nuova Corrente», LXII, 155, 2015. * Ferraro, Alessandro: Amalia Guglielminetti. Le opere, la vita (1881-1941), Genova, 2016. * Rota, Marina: Amalia, se Voi foste uomo..., Torino, Golem, 2016

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guglielminetti, Amalia 1881 births 1941 deaths Italian women poets Writers from Turin 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian women writers Italian civilians killed in World War II Deaths by airstrike during World War II Accidental deaths in Italy