Vittoria Aganoor

Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj

Victoria Aghanour

Viktoria Aghanoor

Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj (born May 26, 1855 in Padua , † April 9, 1910 in Rome ) was an Italian poet and writer of Armenian descent.

life and work

Pompilj was born in Padua as the daughter of a count of Armenian origin Edoardo Aganoor (1822-1891) and the Milanese nobleman Giuseppina Pacini. She spent her childhood in Padua and moved to Venice with her family . As a young girl she received literary training from famous teachers such as the famous poet Andrea Maffei and the abbot Giacomo Zanella , who was a poet and professor at the University of Padua and whom she taught for about fifteen years. After the death of her father, she moved back to Venice around 1890. She was friends with the poet Enrico Nencioni , who visited her in 1894 in her summer residence in Basalghelle. The poet Domenico Gnoli , with whom she had had an intensive correspondence since 1898, was her friend until she married. She took care of her mother for many years and only after her death in 1899, after many refusals, accepted the Milan Treves publishing house's offer to publish her poems. She had worked on this for fifteen years and the volume entitled Leggenda eterna was published in early May 1900. After the book was published, her name appeared in literary magazines, and a month later she was greeted as the "Queen" in aristocratic Neapolitan salons.

Via Vittoria Aganoor in Padua

In 1901 she married the politician Guido Pompilj in Naples and moved to Perugia . In 1903 a new edition of Leggende eterne appeared and in 1908 it published a collection called Nuove liriche. She died of an operation in a clinic in Rome and her husband could not bear the idea of ​​living without her and ended his life with a pistol shot. This double death sparked both shock and sympathy in Italian literary and political circles. Since 1998 the municipality of Magione has organized a literary prize dedicated to Vittoria Aganoor. In her honor, streets in the municipalities of Arquà Petrarca , Padua, Assisi and Naples are named after her.

literature

Works

• 1892: I cavalli di San Marco . C. Ferrari, Venice
• 1893: A mio padre. Versi . C. Ferrari, Venice
• 1900: Leggenda eterna . Treves, Milan
• 1908: Nuove Liriche . Nuova antologia, Rome
• 1927: Poetry complete . F. Le Monnier, Florence
• 2007: Nuove liriche . Edited by John Butcher, Nuova S1, Bologna

Letters and correspondence

• Biagia Marniti (Ed.): Lettere a Domenico Gnoli, 1898–1901. Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta / Rome 1967.
• Adriana Chemello (ed.): Lettere a Giacomo Zanella (1876-1888). Eidos, Mirano 1996.
• Brunone De Toffol (Ed.): Lettere scelte di Vittoria Aganoor ad Antonio Fogazzaro. Comune, Biblioteca comunale, Mansue 2002.
• Lucia Ciani (ed.): Aganoor, la brezza e il vento, corrispondenza di Vittoria Aganoor a Guido Pompilj. Nuova S1, Bologna 2004 ISBN 88-89262-01-X .
• Lucia Ciani (ed.): Vittoria Aganoor, Almerigo da Schio, lettere (1886–1909). Ribis, Campoformido 2005, ISBN 88-7445-024-9 .

bibliography

• 1921: Anna Alinovi: Vittoria Aganoor Pompili. F.lli Treves, Milan.
• 1959: Franco Mancini: La poesia di Vittoria Aganoor. F. Le Monnier, Florence.
• 1960: Antonio Russi:  AGANOOR, Vittoria. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• 1973: Maria Di Giovanna: La poesia di Vittoria Aganoor. In: Atti dell'Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Palermo , serie 4, Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palermo.
• 1982: Natalia Costa-Zalessow: Scrittrici italiane dal XII al XX secolo. Testi e critica. Longo, Ravenna.
• 2000: Giuseppe D'Angelo: Le strade di Castellammare di Stabia.
• 2003: Barbara Marola, Maria Teresa Munini, Rosa Regio, Barbara Ricci (eds.): Fuori norma: scrittrici italiane del primo Novecento: Vittoria Aganoor, Paola Drigo, Rosa Rosà, Lina Pietravalle. L. Tufani, Ferrara, ISBN 88-867-8046-X
• 2004: Patrizia Zambon: Il filo del racconto. Studi di letteratura in prosa dell'Otto / Novecento. Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria.
• 2007: John Butcher: Una leggenda eterna. Vita e poesia di Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj. Nuova S1, Bologna.
• 2007: Giuseppe Centonze: Vittoria Aganoor a Castellammare. In: Cultura & Società, Rivista dell'Associazione “Cultura e Territorio” , Castellammare di Stabia, Anno I - N. 1.
• 2007: Rosa Pisano, Le lettere di Vittoria Aganoor a Salvatore Di Giacomo. In: AA.VV .: Salvatore Di Giacomo. Settant'anni dopo. published by AR Pupino, Liguori, Naples.
• 2010: Michele Chierico, Guido Pompilj (1854–1910) - L'uomo, il politico, le lettere, Perugia, Effe Fabrizio Fabbri Editore
• 2010: AA.VV .: Vittoria Aganoor e Guido Pompilj. Un romantico e tragico amore di primo Novecento sul Lago Trasimeno - Catalogo mostra documentaria per il centenario della morte. Soprintendenza ai Beni archivistici dell'Umbria e Comune di Magione, Perugia.

Web links

Commons : Vittoria Aganoor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography Aganoor Pompilj, Vittoria (1855–1910), In: lib.uchicago.edu (English)
• featured poem: fear by vittoria aganoor pompili
• Learn about Vittoria Aganoor (1855-1910)
• Vittoria Aganoor, Italian Women Writers, A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Edited by Rinaldina Russell, Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 0-313-28347-8 in the Google Book Search USA
• Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj (1855–1910), In: resources.huygens.knaw.nl (English)
• Vittoria Aganoor, In: liberliber.it (Italian)