Mistresses of themselves: stories of women who shared their lives and thoughts
€ 3.00Having found it difficult to express themselves throughout centuries of male domination, especially in Italy, women have often employed sophisticated and extensive mechanisms to share their thoughts. Here are five compelling stories of Italian women who led pioneering lifestyles, the secret to which was sharing. Women whose lives were often recorded only in the margins of official history, inspired as they were by a spirit of protest and open rebellion against the established order; and who used all available means to express themselves, from politics to romance novels. Women who had an extraordinary impact on society: Saint Guglielma and Sister Maifreda, who created a women’s community around a new school of political and religious thought in 13th century Milan; philanthropist Alessandrina Ravizza, a reformer of female workers’ rights in Italy in the 19th century; Maria Montessori, who reformed education worldwide; partigiana Teresa Noce, the mother of the Italian Constitution; and author Brunella Gasperini.
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Luca Scarlini is a playwright and essayist, and enjoys telling stories on stage, often together with singers, actors and other artists. Scarlini teaches at Milan’s European Design Institute and elsewhere in Italy and abroad. He has taken part in many festivals in Italy and in other countries. He regularly contributes to Channel 3 of Italian public radio, to Alias and L’indice dei Libri del mese. His books include: Alfabeto Poli (Einaudi, 2013); La musa inquietante. Il computer e l’immaginario contemporaneo (Cortina, 2001); Equivoci e miraggi. Pratiche d’autobiografia oggi (Rizzoli, 2003); D’Annunzio a Little Italy. Le avventure del Vate nel mondo dell’emigrazione (Donzelli, 2008); Lustrini per il regno dei cieli. Ritratti di evirati cantori (Bollati Boringhieri, 2008); Sacre sfilate. Alta moda in Vaticano, da Pio X a Benedetto XVI (Guanda, 2010); Ladri di immagini (Edizioni Ambiente, 2010); Un paese in ginocchio (Guanda, 2011); Ritratti dimenticati. Profili di scrittori e artisti a Firenze dal mondo (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2011); Il Natale dei Magi (Einaudi, 2011); La sindrome di Michael Jackson (Bompiani, 2011); Il Caravaggio rubato. Mito e cronaca di un furto (Sellerio, 2012); Siviero contro Hitler. La battaglia per l'arte (Skira, 2014).
Luca Scarlini & i Dialoghi
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