She was an Italian writer, poet and translator. .∼Italian translator, poet and writer. Born in Bologna, she later lived in Parma, then in Florence, where her father, the musician Guido Guerrini, was called to direct the Conservatory of music "Luigi Cherubini". In Florence she was in direct contact with Leone Traverso, Mario Luzi, Gianfranco Draghi, Gabriella Bemporad and other eminent literary personalities of the time. Her solitary, almost anacoretic nature led her to shy away from public acknowledgments and appreciations. In 1955 she moved to Rome, where her father directed the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of music. Here she met other exponents of the cultural environment, including Corrado Alvaro, Ezra Pound, Margherita Dalmati, Roberto Bazlen and Maria Zambrano. In 1958 she had a fundamental meeting with the scholar and writer Elémire Zolla, with whom she lived for a long time. The publisher Vanni Scheiwiller of Milan published in 1956 her first book of poems," Passo d'addio" ("Farewell Step"). In 1962 her book of essays "Fiaba e mistero" ("Fairy Tale and Mistery") appeared, partly merged into the next "Il flauto e il tappeto" ("The Flute and the Carpet"), published in 1971 by Rusconi. She also translated into Italian works by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Simone Weil, William Carlos Williams, Marcel Proust, John Donne and others. Her many volumes of correspondence are also important. She used various pseudonyms, but above all "Cristina Campo", the name by which she is known. In the last decade of her life she remained marginalized from the cultural scene and was deeply interested in religious issues. She died in Rome at the age of 53 from yet another heart failure crisis. The writer Alfredo Cattabiani said of her: "She was perhaps the greatest Italian prose writer of the first half of the twentieth century".
Biografia di: Marina Caracciolo
Biografia di: Marina Caracciolo
She was an Italian writer, poet and translator. .∼Italian translator, poet and writer. Born in Bologna, she later lived in Parma, then in Florence, where her father, the musician Guido Guerrini, was called to direct the Conservatory of music "Luigi Cherubini". In Florence she was in direct contact with Leone Traverso, Mario Luzi, Gianfranco Draghi, Gabriella Bemporad and other eminent literary personalities of the time. Her solitary, almost anacoretic nature led her to shy away from public acknowledgments and appreciations. In 1955 she moved to Rome, where her father directed the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of music. Here she met other exponents of the cultural environment, including Corrado Alvaro, Ezra Pound, Margherita Dalmati, Roberto Bazlen and Maria Zambrano. In 1958 she had a fundamental meeting with the scholar and writer Elémire Zolla, with whom she lived for a long time. The publisher Vanni Scheiwiller of Milan published in 1956 her first book of poems," Passo d'addio" ("Farewell Step"). In 1962 her book of essays "Fiaba e mistero" ("Fairy Tale and Mistery") appeared, partly merged into the next "Il flauto e il tappeto" ("The Flute and the Carpet"), published in 1971 by Rusconi. She also translated into Italian works by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Simone Weil, William Carlos Williams, Marcel Proust, John Donne and others. Her many volumes of correspondence are also important. She used various pseudonyms, but above all "Cristina Campo", the name by which she is known. In the last decade of her life she remained marginalized from the cultural scene and was deeply interested in religious issues. She died in Rome at the age of 53 from yet another heart failure crisis. The writer Alfredo Cattabiani said of her: "She was perhaps the greatest Italian prose writer of the first half of the twentieth century".
Biografia di: Marina Caracciolo
Biografia di: Marina Caracciolo
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