Literary Celebs: Amalia Guglielminetti, Guido Gozzano and the Price of Fame

“L’unica poetessa che abbia oggi l’Italia,” Gabriele D’Annunzio declared of Amalia Guglielminetti, who began her literary career at the age of eighteen in 1901 with the ode “Al giglio sabaudo” celebrating the birth of Princess Jolanda of Savoy. In the following decade, emerging onto the rich cultural scene of her native Turin, the Italian center of both the worker’s movement and the drive for female emancipation, she would bring forth three of the most important books of poetry of the new century: Le vergini folli (1907), Le seduzioni (1909), and L’insonne (1913). Adopting classical forms such as the songbook, the sonnet, and the tercet, her self-fashioning showcases various masks of the modern ‘donna nuova,’ from the femme fatale to the emancipated woman. While linked to such traditional figures as Sappho, Gaspara Stampa and other female poets of the Renaissance, she was also praised for her “stupefacente originalità.” Join us on Thursday, November 7, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET.

Speakers:
Professor Emeritus John Welle, University of Notre Dame

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