Anna Banti and the the Impossibility of Love

110 Pages·2010·0.702 MB·English

by  Wissia Fiorucci

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love
By
Wissia Fiorucci
Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love, by Wissia Fiorucci
This book first published 2010
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Copyright © 2010 by Wissia Fiorucci
All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
ISBN (10): 1-4438-2336-8, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-2336-4
To Carlo, Loredana and Roberto

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements....................................................................................ix(cid:3)
Introduction.................................................................................................1(cid:3)
The Exceptional Woman and the Exceptional Man
Chapter One.................................................................................................9(cid:3)
A Piercing Cry
It is Just a Dream
“Who am I?”(cid:3)
“Agnese was letting herself die”(cid:3)
She called him “Maestro”(cid:3)
“I am a woman writer”(cid:3)
Chapter Two..............................................................................................31(cid:3)
“The Women are Dying”
The “Second Memory”: Guiltiness and Innocence(cid:3)
Banti and Manzoni(cid:3)
Equality, difference, motherhood and death(cid:3)
Agnese Grasti(cid:3)
She called them “brothers”(cid:3)
Anna Banti and Italian feminism(cid:3)
Chapter Three............................................................................................65(cid:3)
“Je vous écris d’un pays lointain”
Millions of Similar Objects
Men born from the same beaker(cid:3)
My suffocated diversity(cid:3)
Death is not the enemy(cid:3)
Conclusion.................................................................................................93(cid:3)
Away from Artemisia: Anna Banti and Sexual Difference
Cited Works...............................................................................................97(cid:3)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First, I would like to address my sincere gratitude to Dr. Lorenzo
Chiesa, whose constant support and invaluable guidance have made this
book possible.
Very special thanks go to Alvise Sforza Tarabochia for his endless
patience and moral support during the months in which this book was
written.
I wish to thank Dr. Ana de Medeiros for her continuous and precious
help with different aspects of this project.
I also take this opportunity to thank Krista Bonello, for her kind and
very prompt advices.