Agathe Sophie Sassernò

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Agathe Sophie Sasserno (born 3 October 1810 in Nice ; died 6. June 1860 ibid) was a French poet of romance .

Life

Agathe Sophie Sassernò was born in 1810 to Lieutenant Colonel Louis Sasserno (an adjutant to André Masséna ) and Marie-Sibille Chartroux. She is a cousin of the painter Jean-Baptiste Biscarra . When she was fourteen she wrote her first poem for her father, which was very well received and motivated her to continue studying poetry. She remained single and devoted her whole life to poetry.

Although she wrote in French , she saw herself as Italian. She dedicated her work Les Sylphides, completed in 1838, to the King of Sardinia Karl Albert . In 1846 she subsequently wrote Ore meste, chants sur l'Italie (Sad Hours, Songs about Italy) and in 1854 she published the poetry collection Poésies françaises d'une Italienne (French poetry by an Italian woman). The critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve wrote a foreword to this volume. She was enthusiastic about the unification of Italy in the course of the Risorgimento . In Gloire et aventure - chants de guerre de l'indépendance italienne (Fame and Adventure: War Songs of Italian Independence) she conjures up Anita Garibaldi in 1852 .

Her attachment to Nice, which she calls “[her] home”, is also a recurring theme in her poems. So she wrote in the poem called Nice in 1858 : "O Nice o mon pays Nice o doux sol natal, o ma Nice si belle" (Oh Nice, my country, o sweet soil of the homeland). In Pleurs et sourires (Tears and Sighs) from 1856 six poems are dedicated to Nice. In the poem Physionomies nationales regional costumes are described, two of them from the Pays niçois. In À Catherine Ségurane , she celebrates the heroism of Catherine Séguranes , a laundress from Nice.

During her life she corresponded with several French writers, including Alphonse de Lamartine , Alexandre Dumas , Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand . She was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon .

She was buried in the cemetery of the Château de Nice. In Nice, a square and a private school bear her name.

Works

  • Les Sylphides . Chants D'une Jeune Fille Dédiés A Sa Majesté le Roi Charles Albert . Suchet Fils, Nice 1838 ( google.de ).
  • Haute Combes . 1844.
  • Ore Meste . Chants sur l'Italie et poésies intimes et religieuses . Fontana, Turin 1846 ( hathitrust.org ).
  • Gloire et aventure . Chants de guerre de l'indépendance italienne, et poésies nouvelles . Turin 1852.
  • Poésies françaises d'une Italienne . Charpentier, Paris 1854.
  • Pleurs et sourires . Étrenne poétique dédiée aux dames piémontaises . Pomba, Turin 1856.

Secondary literature

  • Giovanni G. Amoretti: Una poetessa romantica tra Francia e Italia: Agathe Sophie Sassernò . In: Servants . Revue suisse des littératures romanes . tape 31 , 1997, ISSN  0256-9645 , pp. 45-64 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  • Maurice Derot: Agathe-Sophie Sasserno 'la Sapho niçoise' . In: Nice historique . tape 83 , 1980, pp. 3–12 ( nicehistorique.org ).
  • Charles-Alexandre Fighiera, E. Hildesheimer: À propos d'Agathe-Sophie Sasserno . In: Nice historique . tape 83 , 1980, pp. 10-12 ( nicehistorique.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Maurice Derot: Agathe-Sophie Sasserno 'la Sapho niçoise' . In: Nice historique . tape 83 , 1980, pp. 3–9 ( nicehistorique.org ).
  2. ↑ a b c Ralph Schor: Sasserno, Agathe-Sophie . In: Dictionnaire historique et biographique du comté de Nice . Volume IV of the Encyclopædia Niciensis . Serre, Nice 2002, ISBN 978-2-86410-366-0 .
  3. ↑ a b Patricia Carlier: Agathe-Sophie Sasserno et Nice . In: Lou Sourgentin . No. 175 , February 2007, ISSN  1243-0773 .
  4. ↑ SASSERNO Agathe-Sophie dite "Sapho niçoise". Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, October 23, 2009, accessed on August 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ List of the Tombes présentes dans la base: SASSERNO. Mairie de Nice, accessed August 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Sassernò, Agathe Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French romantic poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1860
Place of death Nice