The lucky discovery in Athens of the letters of Luzi, Traverso and Macrí to Margherita Dalmati allowed to complete the epistolary of the Greek poet and harpsichordist preserved in the archives of Florence and Urbino. The 341 pieces available thanks to Sara Moran's research allow us to trace her contacts with the great protagonists of post-war literary Florence, also showing their links with the Roman and Milanese environment. Throughout the “thaw” years, the letters offer the reconstruction of Dalmati’ militancy in Cyprus’ struggle for independence, of her friendship with Cristina Campo, of the translations into neo-Greek of Luzi's poetry. The 60s and 70s are marked by her promotion of Italian poetry in Greece, and of Greek poetry in Italy, through collaboration with magazines and the translation for Einaudi, together with Nelo Risi, of Kavafi’s poems. The letters - tender, funny, ironic and affectionate - of the four voices involved in the book illuminate important moments of the culture of the second half of the 20th Century as well as of the protagonists’ life, while among and around all of them an enchanting woman with her musical voice can be admired, whose name was little known until now.
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Book Title
Lettere agli amici fiorentini
Book Subtitle
Con i carteggi di Mario Luzi, Leone Traverso e Oreste Macrí
Editors
Sara Moran
Authors
Margherita Dalmati
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
332
Publication Year
2017
Copyright Information
© 2017 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-634-7
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-633-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-634-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-635-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-182-0
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X