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Title: Angela Bianchini. Un Amore Sconveniente (Book Review)
Author : Annali d'Italianistica
Release Date : January 01, 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 168 KB

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Angela Bianchini. Un amore sconveniente. Milano: Frassinelli, 1999. Angela Bianchini was born and lives in Rome, but spent many years in the U.S., where she obtained a Ph.D. in Romance Philology at the Johns Hopkins University, under the direction of Leo Spitzer. One of her best works is a penetrating and exhaustive study that serves as introduction to the letters written in the mid-1400s by Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, whose sons had been exiled from Florence for political reasons (Tempo di affetti e di mercanti. Lettere ai figli esuli. Milano: Garzanti, 1987). Most of her essays, however, address twentieth-century Italian and Latin-American literature. In addition, in 1979 she published a comprehensive and immensely perceptive volume on women's history, Voce donna, which was then reprinted in 1996 by Frassinelli. Bianchini has also written in various media genres, and she continues to contribute articles and book reviews to major Italian dailies. Three novellas entitled "Gli oleandri," "Festa dell'indipendenza," and "Lungo equinozio" appeared in 1962. Then came Le nostre distanze, a novel situated on a barely disguised Johns Hopkins campus, that was published in 1965. La ragazza in nero followed in 1990, and Le labbra tue sincere in 1995. One of her best works of fiction is Capo d'Europa , which was first published in 1991 and reprinted in 1998. It is a narrative about seldom explored aspects of the Jewish experience in the 1930s and 1940s, in Europe. An Italian girl discovers what the Diaspora is, and what is her place in it, during a three-day stopover in Lisbon, as she is awaiting passage to the United States, in the terrible days of 1941. Capo d'Europa is Bianchini's first work to appear in English translation, under the imprint of the University of Nebraska Press and the title The Edge of Europe.