Maria Antonietta Torriani

Maria Antonietta Torriani

Maria Antonietta Torriani (born January 1, 1840 in Novara , Province of Novara , † March 24, 1920 in Cumiana , Province of Turin ) was an Italian writer.

Live and act

Torriani's first literary attempts go back to her childhood. She took her pseudonym Marchesa Colombi from a character in the comedy "Parini e la satira".

On October 30, 1875 Torriani married the Neapolitan journalist Eugenio Torelli Viollier (1842-1900) in Milan . Together with her husband, she was able to publish articles in literary magazines again and again. Almost at the same time as the marriage, Torelli Viollier founded the Corriere della Sera ; the marriage failed.

Torriani later settled in Gessate , a small community near Milan. She lived there with the scientist and feminist Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920).

Maria Antonietta Torriani died at the age of eighty on March 24, 1920 in Cumiana, where she also found her final resting place.

Natalia Ginzburg and Italo Calvino discovered their work in 1973, and literary studies have been researching it since the 1990s.

Honors

• Via Colombi Marchesa in Novara was named in her honor

Works (selection)

• Il tramont di un ideal .
  • German: An ideal. Novel . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1885.
• Un matrimonio in provincia .
  • A groom for life. Novel . Translation Christine Grabe. Introduction by Natalia Ginzburg. Illustrations by Kathleen Bernsdorf. Edition Fünf, Graefelfing 2012, ISBN 978-3-942374-24-8 (former title: Eine Provinzheirat ).
• In risaio .
  • German: In the rice field . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1892.
• Italian townspeople and other narratives . Reclam, Leipzig 1899.
• Storm and calm. Narratives . Reclam, Leipzig 1898.

literature

• Clotilde Barbarulli: L'arma di cristallo. Sui "discorsi trionfanti". L'ironia della Marchesa Colombi (Critica; Vol. 7). Editorial Tufani, Ferrara 1998, ISBN 88-86780-24-9 .
• Silvia Benatti et al. a. (Ed.): La Marchesa Colombi. Una crittrice e il suo tempo . Centro Novarese di Studi Letterari, Novara 2001, ISBN 88-8212-267-0 .
• Maria T. Cometto: La Marchesa Colombi. La prima giornalista del "Corriere della Sera" . BLU Editorial, Turin 1996, ISBN 88-86923-01-5 .
• Deborah K. Fellini: The poetics of the banal object. Marchesa Colombi, Natalia Ginzburg and Dacia Maraini . Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles 2006.
• Emmanuelle Genevois: Le métier d'écrivaine. La Marchesa Colombi (1840-1920) . In: Bulletin de l'Association des historiens de l'Art Italy , Vol. 7 (2000/01), pp. 67-70, ISSN  1265-0935
• Sara Grazzini: La Marchesa Colombi e il femminismo "tormentoso e incerto" . Editoriale Toscano, Florence 2006, ISBN 88-7957-248-2 .
• Luciano Tamburini: Biobibliografia . In: Maria Antonietta Torriani: Un matrimonio in provincia (Biblioteca di Narrativa; Vol. 7). Einaudi, Turin 2009, ISBN 978-88-8212-227-0 .
• Katharine Mitchell: Italian women writers. Gender and everyday life in fiction and journalism, 1870-1910 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2014 (study on La Marchesa Colombi, Neera and Matilde Serao )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Published by Paolo Ferrari in 1857 .