Amalia Guglielminetti

Amalia Guglielminetti (4 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian poet and writer.

Life

Amalia, who had two sisters, Emma and Erminia, and a brother, Ernesto, was born in Turin to Pietro Guglielminetti and his wife Felicita Lavezzato.^[1] Her great-grandfather had moved from Cravanzana to Turin around 1858, where he had established a timber business. He invented a water canteen, at that time made of wood, which became popular.^[2] Her father died in 1886, and the family moved in with a grandfather, who sent Amalia to a religious school.^[2]

She started writing in 1901 for the Gazzetta del Popolo where her poetry was published in the Sunday supplement. Her poetry then appeared in Voci di Giovinezza, published in 1903, and was dedicated to her father.^[1]

Her main works are the poetry collections Le seduzioni (1908) and L'insonne (1913) and the prose collections I volti dell'amore (1913) and Quando avevo un amante (1923).^[1]

She had an affair with Guido Gozzano with whom she exchanged a series of love letters in 1907-09, published posthumously.^[3]

Between 1916 and 1925 she wrote books for children: Fiabe in versi (1916); Gli occhi cerchiati d'azzurro (1920); La reginetta Chiomadoro (1923); Il ragno incantato (1923) and La carriera dei pupazzi (1925). In addition, she contributed to Lidel, a nationalist women's magazine which was in circulation in the period 1919–1935.^[4]

In the following years she became romantically involved with Pitigrilli (Dino Segre). The relationship became so intense that she had a nervous breakdown. She eventually recovered, and felt that the experience had made her stronger.^[1]

In 1935 Guglielminetti moved to Rome to pursue a career in journalism, but returned to Turin in 1937. She died from complications resulting from an accident during an air-raid. She had always been a solitary and somewhat depressed figure.^[1]

Works

Poetry

Voci di giovinezza, Torino; Roma, Roux e Viarengo, 1903
Le vergini folli, Torino; Roma, Società Tip. Ed. Nazionale, 1907
Le vergini folli - Le seduzioni (con un autoritratto e intervista), Chioggia-Venezia, Damocle, 2012
Le seduzioni, Torino, S. Lattes e C., 1909; Palomar, 2001
Emma, Torino, Tip. V. Bona, 1909
L'insonne, Milano, Treves, 1913
Fiabe in versi, Ostiglia, La scolastica 1916
Il ragno incantato, Roma; Milano, Mondadori 1922
La carriera dei pupazzi, Milano, Sonzogno, 1924
I serpenti di Medusa, Milano, La Prora, stampa 1934
L’insonne, Fiabe in versi e altri scritti, coll. Donne in poesia a cura di M. G. Amati, Bertoni Editore, Perugia 2022.

Fiction

I volti dell'amore, Milano, Fratelli Treves, 1913
Anime allo specchio, Milano, Treves, 1915
Le ore inutili, Milano, F.lli Treves, 1919
Gli occhi cerchiati d'azzurro, Milano, Italia, 1920
La porta della gioia, Milano, Vitagliano, 1920
La reginetta Chiomadoro, Roma-Milano, Mondadori, 1921
Le distrazioni di Mimi, Milano, Gandolfi 1922
Quando avevo un amante, Milano, Casa Ed. Sonzogno, 1923
La rivincita del maschio, Torino, Lattes, 1923
Il pigiama del moralista, Roma, Fauno, 1927
Tipi bizzarri: novelle, Milano, Mondadori, 1931
Passione, novella in: L’uomo che è mio by Luciana Peverelli, Rizzoli 1940.
Il cuore tardo, Pisa, ETS 1985

Drama

L'amante ignoto, poema tragico, Milano, Treves, 1911
Il gingillo di lusso, commedia in un atto, 1924
Il ladro di gioielli, commedia in un atto, 1924
Nei e cicisbei - Il baro dell'amore - Commedia in un atto: Commedia in tre atti, Milano, Mondadori, 1926

Epistles

Lettere d'amore di Guido Gozzano e Amalia Guglielminetti, Milano, Garzanti, 1951

Bibliography

Benso, Ornella: Una relazione letteraria. Amalia Guglielminetti e Guido Gozzano, Turín, 1944.
Gastaldi, M.: Amalia Guglielminetti, Milán, 1930.
Guglielminetti, Marziano: La Musa subalpina. Amalia e Guido, Pastonchi e Pitigrilli, Florencia, L. S. Olschki, 2007.
Ferraro, Alessandro: La corsa del levriero. Amalia Guglielminetti nel Novecento italiano, in Amalia Guglielminetti, La rivincita del maschio, edit by Alessandro Ferraro, Genova, Sagep, 2014.
Ferraro, Alessandro: Il frutto dietro la foglia. 1928 e 1934: Amalia Guglielminetti denunciata due volte per oltraggio al pudore, «Nuova Corrente», LXII, 155, 2015.
Ferraro, Alessandro: Amalia Guglielminetti. Le opere, la vita (1881-1941), Genova, 2016.
Rota, Marina: Amalia, se Voi foste uomo..., Torino, Golem, 2016

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Italia Donne (2009). "Amalia Guglielminetti". Biography (in Italian). Feltrinelli. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
^ ^a ^b Guglielminetti, Amalia (1941), "Come nacque la borraccia (How the canteen was born)", La Lettura (in Italian)
^ Lettere d'amore, G. Gozzano e A. Guglielminetti, 1951)
^ Eugenia Paulicelli (2002). "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy". Gender & History. 14 (3): 552. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00281.

External links

Works by Amalia Guglielminetti at Project Gutenberg

[exa-1] Italia Donne (2009). "Amalia Guglielminetti". Biography (in Italian). Feltrinelli. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.

[cit-2] Guglielminetti, Amalia (1941), "Come nacque la borraccia (How the canteen was born)", La Lettura (in Italian)

[3] Lettere d'amore, G. Gozzano e A. Guglielminetti, 1951)

[4] Eugenia Paulicelli (2002). "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy". Gender & History. 14 (3): 552. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00281.

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