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Anna Banti
A Piercing Cry, along with Artemisia, is a novel of female development. The question who am I?, posed in Anna Banti’s first novel Itinerario di Paolina, comes full circle in…
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Wissia Fiorucci
This book looks into Banti’s stance on Italian feminism, with a specific focus on her interpretation of the concept of equality as well as of sexual difference . An analysis…
Lucy Delogu
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to the creation of a female literary canon, as well as the renewal of Italian literature, from stylistic and thematic points of view.
Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor…
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Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.Much in Gentileschi’s life marked her out as a…
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