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Books LLC : Italian Women Writers: Veronica Franco, Catherine of Siena, Grazia Deledda, Angela Bianchini, Tullia D'aragona, Trotula, Camilla Faà
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Author: Books LLC
Title: Italian Women Writers: Veronica Franco, Catherine of Siena, Grazia Deledda, Angela Bianchini, Tullia D'aragona, Trotula, Camilla Faà
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 98
Date: 2010-05-05
ISBN: 115562632X
Publisher: Books LLC
Weight: 0.34 pounds
Size: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.2 inches
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Veronica Franco, Catherine of Siena, Grazia Deledda, Angela Bianchini, Tullia D'aragona, Trotula, Camilla Faà, Elsa Morante, Gaspara Stampa, Natalia Ginzburg, Clara Sereni, Lara Cardella, Veronica Gambara, Lina Poletti, Cristina Comencini, Laura Cereta, Simonetta Greggio, Cecilia Maria de Candia, Lalla Romano, Laura Beatrice Mancini, Elisabetta Gnone, Vittoria Aganoor, Margarita Bobba, Giovanna Zangrandi, Margarita Balliana, Diodata Saluzzo Roero, Camilla Soardi, Modesta Di Pozzo Di Forzi, Ida Baccini. Excerpt: Angela Bianchini Angela Bianchini is an Italian fiction writer and literary critic of Jewish descent. She grew up there and emigrated to the United States in 1941, after Mussolini's openly anti-Semitic racial laws were enacted. Education and early career She spent her "years in waiting" (to use Giovanni Macchia's expression) at Johns Hopkins University where she completed a Ph.D. in French Linguistics under the guidance and supervision of Leo Spitzer. The presence and lectures of a group of Spanish exiles (among whom Pedro Salinas and Jorge Guillén ) determined some of her major interests in the field of Spanish literature: in particular the great 20th century poetry and 19th century novel. After her return to Rome after the war, Angela Bianchini was attracted to the world of communication and collaborated not only with such prestigious periodicals as Il mondo di Pannunzio , but also with RAI (the Italian Broadcasting Corporation). For RAI she wrote several cultural broadcasts, radio plays and original radio and T.V. programs. She has many literary studies to her credit. She was one of the first literary critics to study serial novels in La luce a gas e il feuilleton: due invenzioni dell'Ottocento (Liguori, 1969, reprinted in 1989). She translated Medieval French Novels ...
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