Ida Baccini

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Ida Baccini (born May 16, 1850 in Florence , † February 28, 1911 there ) was an Italian writer and journalist.

The daughter of the publisher Leopoldo Baccini spent her youth in Genoa from 1857 and in Livorno from 1859 . After losing their father's business, the family returned to Florence in 1865. In 1868 Baccini married the sculptor Vincenco Cerri , from whom they separated after three years; the marriage was divorced in 1875. After a short training, she taught at an elementary school from 1872 to 1878.

From 1875 she published, initially anonymously, her first book Le memorie di un pulcino . After its unexpected success, the second edition appeared under her name. In addition, published in the Gazetta spindles Popolo and wrote under the pseudonym Cenerantola article for the magazine Vedetta . In the Gazetta d'Italia and the Rivista Europea literary reviews appeared under the name of her son, Manfredo Baccini . In 1878 she gave up teaching and began to work for the publishing house Treves and Fernando Martinis Fanfulla della Domenica .

She was soon in close contact with authors such as Carlo Collodi and Giuseppe Rigutini and met on trips to Milan and Rome with Matilde Serao together. She then took over the management of Angelo di Gubernatis ' literary magazine Cordelia . In 1895 she founded the Giornale dei Bambini , for which she wrote practically all of the articles herself under various pseudonyms. In 1906 the magazine was merged with the Giornalino della Domenica .

Baccini published more than a hundred books, in addition to novels for adults (including Vita borghese , 1884; Storia di Firenze , 1887; Storia di una donna , 1888; Scintille nell'ombra , 1910) it was mainly children's books . As one of the first authors, instead of the ostensible didactic instruction that had prevailed until then, she introduced fantastic realism into children's literature and thus influenced and inspired the works of contemporary authors such as Maria Bartolini ( Il mio pulcino ), Cesare Dei ( Il viaggio del pulcino Pip ), Cesarina Lorenzini ( Il pulcino verde ), Milla Vignini Paloschi ( Ciò Ciò ) and Giannino Falzone Fontanelli ( Le avventure de un pulcino ).

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SURNAME Baccini, Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1911
Place of death Florence