Olga Signorelli

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Malvina Olga Resnevič Signorelli (born August 8, 1883 in Jaunsvirlaukas near Jelgava in Latvia , Russian Empire , † December 17, 1973 in Rome ) was an Italian writer and translator from Russian .

Life

Malvina Olga Resnevič, daughter of Adolfo Resnais, studied medicine in Bern , from 1904 in Siena and from 1906 in Rome , where she completed her studies in 1908. With the doctor Angelo Signorelli (1878–1952) she had three daughters, Maria, Elena and Vera. Without being married to him, she took his name, which she kept after the separation.

She became friends with the feminist Sibilla Aleramo . She worked as a pediatrician in a hospital in via Morosini.

Signorelli had literary interests and wrote with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Scipio Slataper in the magazine La Voce . Since the First World War she has been working increasingly literary and worked as a translator with the Slavist Ettore Lo Gatto . She translated u. a. Works and letters by Lev Tolstoy , Chekhov , Sergei Jessenin and Dostojewski in Italian. She was friends with Vyacheslav Ivanov , who emigrated to Italy in 1924 , and exchanged letters with the writer and editor of La Voce Giovanni Papini .

Signorelli became friends with the actress Eleonora Duse in 1915 . She has published various editions of her correspondence and biographical texts about La Duse , and in 1938 another biography.

She collected contemporary art, and among her painter friends were Virgilio Guidi , Filippo de Pisis and Ferruccio Ferrazzi . She was also friends with the dancer Aurel von Milloss .

Fonts (selection)

  • Eleonora Duse , Roma, Signorelli 1938
  • (Ed.): Lettere di pace e di guerra di Eleonora Duse (1913-1922) , 1939
  • Olga Resnevic-Signorelli: Eleonora Duse: Life and Sorrows of the Great Actress . Trans. V. Hanna Kiel. Berlin, German publisher 1939
  • The legacy of the Duse: A picture of life from letters, confessions, memories . Translated from the Italian by Olga Resnevič Signorelli, Hanna Kiel, Günther Birkenfeld . Herrenalb, Erdmann 1962
  • Isadora Duncan, Eleonora Duse . Bologna, Le Maschere 1957.
  • Lettere a un'amica . Milan, All'insegna del pesce d'oro 1967 ( Filippo de Pisis )
  • Carteggio Papini-Signorelli . Milan, Quaderni dell'Osservatore 1979

literature

  • Giovanni Comisso (Ed.): Lettere ad Olga Signorelli, 1929-1967 . L'Aquila, M. Ferri 1984
  • Elda Garetto (ed.): Una russa a Roma: dall'archivio di Olga Resnevič Signorelli (1883-1973) . Cooperativa libraria IULM, Milan / Rome 1990
  • Elda Garetto (Ed.): Olga Signorelli e la cultura del suo tempo . Archivio russo-italiano. Vereja edizioni, Salerno 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Signorèlli, Maria (1908-1992) , in Treccani
  2. ↑ Daniela Rizzi: Olga Resnevic Signorelli e la cultura artistica a Roma tra il 1910 e il 1925 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at University of Toronto @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.utoronto.ca
personal data
SURNAME Signorelli, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Resnevič, Malvina Ol'ga (maiden name); Resnevič Signorelli, Ol'ga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, journalist and translator from Russian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaunsvirlaukas bie Jelgava , Latvia , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1973
Place of death Rome