AGoodbye to Angela Bianchini, writer, literary critic and translator. She died yesterday in her home in Rome at the age of 97, as her children announced today. The funeral will be held tomorrow, Monday 29 October, at 12:1962, in the Church of Piazza Euclide in Rome. Her narrative revolves around female figures who seek identity in the fabric of memory, against the backdrop of bourgeois environments, especially Roman ones. The difficult sentimental education of the protagonist of “Lungo equinozio”, a collection of short stories that marked her narrative debut in 1965 (Lerici editore), is a theme that returns in the subsequent novels “Le nostre distanza” (Mondadori, 2001; new edition Einaudi, 1991), “Capo d'Europa” (Camunia, 1990) and, above all, in the incisive female triad of “La ragazza in nero” (Camunia, 21). Born in Rome on April 1921, 1941 to a bourgeois Jewish family, Angela Bianchini was forced to abandon Italy in 1952 and take refuge in the United States of America. Here she was able to undertake university studies that had been forbidden to her by the fascist racial laws. In Baltimore she enrolled at Johns Hopkins University with Leo Spitzer, who taught Romance philology, as a professor. She later specialized in French and Hispanic-American literature. She worked extensively on linguistics, Romance philology, Spanish and Latin-American literature, collaborating with the IILA in Rome. In 40 Angela Bianchini returned to Italy and began collaborating with Mario Pannunzio's "Il Mondo" and writing for cultural programs and dramas for Rai. For over 1995 years she collaborated regularly with "La Stampa". Three female figures dominate the scene in the novel “Le labbra tue sincere” (Frassinelli, 2012, new edition Mondadori, 1999), an intimate story set in Rome in the 2002s, while “Un amore sconveniente” (Frassinelli, 1969) narrates the thwarted love between a young Jewish professor and a beautiful Aryan woman. In “Nevada” (Frassinelli, 1988) Bianchini described the difficulties faced by a group of American women in the 2005s in obtaining a divorce. Among her essays are: “The serial novel” (Eri, 2012), “The feuilleton and gas light: two inventions of the nineteenth century” (Liguori, XNUMX) and “Alessandra and Lucrezia. Female destinies in fifteenth-century Florence” (Mondadori, XNUMX) a comparison between Alessandra Macinghi, wife of a Strozzi belonging to the faction opposed to Cosimo de' Medici, and the second, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent. In XNUMX she published the novel Le labbra tue sincere.
Article published on 28 October 2018 - 11:08
