Renata Viganò

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Renata Viganò (born June 17, 1900 in Bologna , † April 23, 1976 in Bologna ) was an Italian writer and partisan. Her main work is her neo-realistic novel Agnes goes to death (1949), which is one of the most intense stories about Italian resistance.

biography

Renata Viganò was born on June 17, 1900 to Eugenio and Amelia Brassi. She grew up in a middle-class family and attended a private school.

With financial support from her parents, she published her first collection of poems at the age of 12, Ginestra in fiore (1912), which was discussed at Il Resto del Carlino on January 22, 1913. A little later, another collection of poems, Piccola Fiamma (1915), was published.

After a successful school career up to then, Viganò had to drop out of school and work from 1917 because the parents' company failed. Having dreamed of becoming a doctor, she trained as a nurse.

Standing in opposition to fascism, she came into contact with the communist opposition. This is how she met her future husband Antonio Meluschi. They had a son together, Agostino. When Italy joined the Allies in the Armistice of Cassibile after the fall of Mussolini and the Germans occupied the rest of Italy , Vigano and her husband joined the Resistancea as partisans on September 9, 1943. Viganò first took care of deserters in Bologna and then went into hiding with his seven-year-old son, first in Emilia-Romagna and then in the Valli di Comacchio . Her code name was "Contessa". She worked as a nurse in her brigade.

She began writing Agnes Goes to Death (1949) as early as 1945. It marks the high point of her literary work, was awarded the Premio Viareggio and filmed by the director Giuliano Montaldo . She herself did not live to see the film's first broadcast.

She wrote two more books on the Italian resistance to fascism: Donne della Resistenza (1955), in which she portrayed fallen anti-fascists from Bologna, and Matrimonio in brigata (1976), in which she tells stories from the lives of partisans in the brigades had collected.

Stories of women also inspired her work and so she wrote Mondine (1952) and Una storia di ragazze (1962).

Viganò died on April 23, 1976 in Bologna.

Works

  • Ginestra in fiore (1912)
  • Piccola Fiamma (1915)
  • L'Agnese above all. Einaudi, Turin 1949.
In German as Agnes goes to death. German by Ines Jun-Broda, Volk und Welt, Berlin-Ost 1951.
New edition 2014: German by Ina Jun-Broda, revised and afterword by Ulrike Schimming. edition five, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942374-46-0 . ( Scientific review )
  • Mondine (1952)
  • Donne della Resistenza , STEB, Bologna 1955.
  • Una storia di ragazze (1962)
  • Matrimonio in brigata (1976)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meris Gaspari, biography of Renata Viganò. Website of the Liceo Galvani, Bologna. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ Franzesca Bravi, book review. Website of the series Horizonte Neue Serie. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Viganò, Renata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and partisan
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1976
Place of death Bologna