Matilde Serao

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Matilde Serao (born March 7, 1856 in Patras , Greece ; died July 25, 1927 in Naples ) was an Italian journalist and writer with Greek roots.

Live and act

Serao was the daughter of Francesco Serao and his wife Paolina Borely. Her father, an Italian who had to leave Naples (→ Italian War of Independence ) because of his anti- Bourbon attitude and chose Greece as his exile; her mother came from a long-established Greek family. Matilde Serao was born in Patras, in what would later be the birthplace of the Greek writer Kostis Palamas .

The family later returned to Naples, where Serao also attended the Scuola Normale Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel . After her studies she worked as a teacher in Naples; even at her old school for a while.

In 1880 she went to Rome and stayed there until 1886. There she made the acquaintance of the journalist Edoardo Scarfaglio (1860-1917) and married him on February 28, 1885. She had four sons with him, including Carlo , who later also became an acquaintance Should become a journalist.

Together with her husband, Serao founded the daily Il Corriere di Roma in Rome . Soon after Serao returned to Naples, Il Corriere di Roma also ceased publication. The first time in Naples she worked at Il Corriere di Napoli and was also able to successfully publish her literary works at the same time.

In 1892 Serao separated from her husband and founded Il Mattino alone in Naples , one of the most successful daily newspapers in southern Italy of its time.

On July 25, 1927, Matilde Serao died of a heart attack in Naples , where she also found her final resting place.

Honors

  • The Liceo Matilde Serao in Pomigliano d'Arco was named in her honor.
  • The Via Matilde Serao and the Piazzetta Matilde Serao in Naples bear her name.
  • The cities of Desio , Maddaloni , Olbia , Rome and Turin each have a Via Matilde Serao .
  • The InterCity Naples - Venice (N ° 704) and back Venice - Naples (N ° 705) also bears her name.

Works (selection)

Letters
stories
  • Santa Lucia. Racconti .
    • German: Santa Lucia and two other stories . Reclam, Leipzig 1915.
  • Giovannino o la morte .
    • German: Giovannino or death! Thirty percent. Narratives . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Fior di passione .
    • German: Blossom of passion. Novellas . Schottländer Verlag, Breslau 1890.
Novels
  • Il paes di cuccagna .
    • German: land of milk and honey. Neapolitan moral novel . DVA, Stuttgart 1904.
  • Terno secco .
    • German: Attention Sentinel! Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1890.
  • Evviva la vita .
    • German: Long live life! Fischer, Berlin 1910.
  • Vita e avventure di Riccardo Johanna .
    • German: Riccardo Joanna's life and adventure . Langen Verlag, Munich 1901.
  • Dopo di perdone .
    • German: After your pardon. Novel . Fischer, Berlin 1908.

literature

  • Anna Banti : Matilde Serao (La vita sociale della nuova Italia; Vol. 9). UTET, Turin 1965, ISBN 88-02-01731-X .
  • Heinrich T. Brand: The technology in the novels and short stories of Matilde Serao. A contribution to the assessment of your storytelling skills . Dissertation, University of Munich 1922.
  • Ursula Fanning: Gender meets genre. Woman as subject in the fictional universe of Matilde Serao . Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2002, ISBN 0-7165-2602-6 .
  • Anthony M. Gisolfi: The essential Serao . Las Americas Publ., New York 1968.
  • Nancy A. Harrowitz: Antisemitism, misogyny and the logic of cultural difference. Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao (Texts and Contexts; Vol. 10). University Press, Lincoln, Neb. 1994, ISBN 0-8032-2374-9 .
  • Katharine Mitchell: Italian women writers. Gender and everyday life in fiction and journalism, 1870-1910. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2014, ISBN 9781442646414 . (Study on La Marchesa Colombi ( Maria Antonietta Torriani ), Neera and Matilde Serao)
  • Francesco de Nicola et al. a. (Ed.): Scrittrici, giornaliste. Da Matilde Serao a Susanna Tamaro . Marsilio, Venice 2001, ISBN 88-317-7783-1 .
  • Wanda de Nunzio Schilardi: L'invenzione del reale. Studi su Matilde Serao . Editorial Palomar, Bari 2004, ISBN 88-88872-77-9 .
  • Wanda de Nunzio Schilardi: Matilde Serao, giornalista (Contemporanea; Vol. 9). Editorial Milella, Lecce 1986, ISBN 88-7048-127-1 .
  • Wanda de Nunzio Schilardi: "La Settimana" by Matilde Serao . Giardini, Pisa 2006, ISBN 88-427-1449-6 .
  • Angelo R. Pupino (Ed.): Matilde Serao. Le opere ei giorni, atti del convegno di studi (Napoli 1–4 December 2004) . Liguori, Naples 2007, ISBN 978-88-207-3918-8 .
  • Lorenza Rocco Carbone: "Cara Matilde". La Serao, la scrittura e la vita . Kairós, Naples 2008, ISBN 978-88-95233-19-2 .
  • Laura A. Salsini: Beyond verismo. Matilde Serao's romance narratives and gothic tales . Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington 1995.
  • Laura A. Salsini: Gendered genres. Female experiences and narrative patterns in the works of Matilde Serao . University Press, Madison, NJ 1999, ISBN 0-8386-3801-5 .
  • Francesca Sanvitale u. a .: La scrittrici dell'ottocento. Da Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel a Matilde Serao . IPZS, Rome 1997.
  • Angela Sarcina (ed.): La signora del "Mattino" . La Conchiglia, Capri 1995, ISBN 88-86443-13-7 .
  • Donatella Trotta: La via della penn e dell'ago. Matilde Serao tra giornalismo e letteratura; con antologia di scritti rari e imagini . Liguori Libri, Naples 2008, ISBN 978-88-207-4149-5 (1 CD-ROM)
  • Theresa P. Wyckoff: Realism and romanticism in the presentation of female characters in the works of Matilde Serao . Dissertation, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 1983.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Named after Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel , an Italian author of Portuguese origin.
personal data
SURNAME Serao, Matilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Patras , West Greece
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1927
Place of death Naples , southern Italy