Anna Banti

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Anna Banti (born June 27, 1895 in Florence , † September 2, 1985 in Ronchi di Massa ; actually: Lucia Lopresti Longhi ) was an Italian writer and art historian .

Life

Anna Banti grew up as the only child of Calabrian parents. Her father Luigi Vincenzo was a lawyer and introduced her to the humanities . It was shaped by the bourgeois cultural landscape of the nineteenth century and the stories of Balzac, Manzoni, Verga and Proust. At the University of La Sapienza , she studied and completed her doctorate in art history with Adolfo Venturi through Marco Boschini . In the following years she published a number of art historical articles.

In 1924 she married the art critic and art historian Roberto Longhi , whose pupil she had been at the Liceo Visconti in Rome. She lived in Rome and Bologna until she returned to her birthplace in 1940. She published her first short story in 1934. In addition to her great short story, Anna Banti wrote criticisms of art and cinema, wrote biographies of Matilde Serao and Giovanni da San Giovanni and translated numerous English texts. In 1950 she and her husband founded the art and literary magazine Paragone .

In 1982 she was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

Works (selection)

  • 1937: Route Pauline ( Itinerario di Paolina. )
  • 1940: Il Coraggio delle Donne.
  • 1941: Sette Lune. Bompiani Publishing House, 1941.
  • 1942: Le monache cantano.
  • 1947: Artemisia. (German: To be feared beautiful and efficient - Artemisia . Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-60054-9 .)
  • 1951: Le Donne Muoiono
  • 1953: Il Bastardo. (The bastard)
  • 1954: Allarme sul Lago.
  • 1957: La Monaca di Sciangai.
  • 1960: Corte Savella (Collana Narratori Italiani n.72 / Opere di Anna Banti volume I).
  • 1961: La casa piccola.
  • 1962: Le mosche d'oro.
  • 1963: Campi Elisi.
  • 1965: Matilde Serao (La Vita Sociale Della Nuova Italia 9). Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese.
  • 1967: Noi credevamo.
  • 1971: Je Vous écris d'un pays lointain.
  • 1973: La camicia bruciata.
  • 1975: Da un paese vicino.
  • 1981: Un grido lacerante. ( A piercing scream. )
  • 1996: Lavinia fuggita.

literature

  • Giuseppe Izzi:  LOPRESTI, Lucia (pseudonimo Anna Banti). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 65:  Levis-Lorenzetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
  • Ute Großmaas: Anna Banti: Lavinia - translation from Italian, with an introduction to the life and work of the author. In: Contributions to teaching foreign languages. Issue 28/1995 ISSN  0171-4155 .
  • Irmgard Scharold: "... ogni giorno la fulminea genialità del compagno l'arricchiva e, insieme, la cancellava" - Anna Banti and Roberto Longhi . In: Gislinde Seybert (ed.): The literary couple - Le couple littéraire: Intertextuality of gender discourses . Intertextualité et discoeurs des sex. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2003 ISBN 3-89528-324-X .
  • Irene Schrattenecker: Quel mondo di donne fragili e superb…. Studies of storytelling by Anna Banti. VWGÖ, Vienna 1992 ISBN 3-85369-899-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography, Lucia (pseudonimo Anna Banti) on treccani.it, accessed on February 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Biography on lib.uchicago.edu, accessed February 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lucia Lopresti Longhi on italiadonna.it, accessed on February 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Banti, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucia Lopresti (maiden name); Lucia Lopresti Longhi (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1985
Place of death Ronchi di Massa