Lettere a Giuseppe Dessí e a Luisa
Con un inedito su I Sogni di Dessí e un’antologia della critica dispersa
- Gianna Manzini,
- Edited by:
- Alberto Baldi,
The friendship between Gianna Manzini and Giuseppe Dessí, reconstructed in this book thanks to the Alberto Baldi’s research, was born in the mid-1940s, in the context of her collaborations with the magazine "Prosa", and would last until 1974, year of the writer's death. After the two were forced apart, their meetings in Rome, once very frequent, would be replaced by a dense epistolary dialogue, which would later involve their respective partners as well. In her letters, with a tone becoming more and more confidential, Manzini talks to Dessí about illness and death, sometimes alludes to complex family relationships, complains about the difficulty of reconciling literary work with private life, all the while trusting in her friend’s understanding, closeness and discretion, and hoping he would help her decrypt Enrico Falqui’s often difficult personality. The appendix of the letters is properly noted, and contains a singular unpublished piece titled I sogni di Dessí, which Manzini had written for the Almanacco dei sogni, a radio broadcast of the 1960s. The conclusion of this volume is a precious anthology of dispersed criticism, containing reviews and essays about the writer’s works which were collected from newspapers and magazines.
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-923-2
- Series: Moderna/Comparata
- Scientific Board
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Contemporary Literature
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University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4721-671X
Alberto Baldi is a PhD student in Languages, Literature and Comparative Culture. He collaborates with the Open Access editorial laboratory of the University of Florence, is a member of the editorial board of the series Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna (Florence University Press) and part of a research group directed by Anna Dolfi and dealing with the editing, cataloguing and commenting of contemporary texts. He published the correspondence between Giuseppe Dessí and Enrico Falqui (FUP, 2015) and Gianna Manzini's letters to Giuseppe De Robertis and to Emilio and Leonetta Cecchi (SEF, 2019).
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Book Title
Lettere a Giuseppe Dessí e a Luisa
Book Subtitle
Con un inedito su I Sogni di Dessí e un’antologia della critica dispersa
Editors
Alberto Baldi
Authors
Gianna Manzini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
172
Publication Year
2019
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-923-2
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-923-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-972-9
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X
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