Anna Banti
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Anna Banti (born Lucia Lopresti; 27 June 1895 – 2 September 1985) was an Italian writer, art historian, critic, and translator.
Life and works
Banti was born in Florence. In her youth she spent time in Rome, attending the University of Rome and Bologna before returning permanently to Florence. At the university, she received a degree in art history. Her pseudonym derived from "an exceptionally beautiful woman" she knew in her youth. She married art critic Roberto Longhi and in 1950 they founded and edited the bi-monthly art magazine Paragone.[1] She did several stories and works over the next decades, but she would become best known for a historical novel concerning artist Artemisia Gentileschi. One newspaper even headlined their report of Banti's death by saying Addio, Artemisia.[2] This work revived interest in Artemisia's work and life.[3]
Banti's autobiographical work, Un Grido Lacerante, was published in 1981 and won the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize.[4] As well as being a successful author, Banti is recognized as a literary, cinematic, and art critic.[5] After the death of Longhi in 1970, she replaced him as the editor of Paragone.[6]
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Banti died on 2 September 1985 in Massa, and is buried at Cimitero degli Allori in Florence.
Selected filmography
- Yes, Madam (1942)
Awards
- 1972 Bagutta Prize
References
- ^ Italian women writers: a bio-bibliographical sourcebook By Rinaldina Russell, pg 35
- ^ Contemporary women writers in Italy: a modern renaissance By Santo L. Aricò, pg 45
- ^ Anna Banti's Artemisia: Reinscribing the female gaze in Italian literature
- ^ Aricó, Santo (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
- ^ Aricó, Santo (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
- ^ Aricó, Santo (1990). After the death of Banti's husband she replaced him as the director of the art review Paragone (Aricó). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
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- Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927)
- Giovanni Comisso (1928)
- Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
- Gino Rocca (1930)
- Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931)
- Leonida Rèpaci (1932)
- Raul Radice (1933)
- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934)
- Enrico Sacchetti (1935)
- Silvio Negro (1936)
- Dario Ortolani (1947)
- Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948)
- Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
- Vitaliano Brancati (1950)
- Indro Montanelli (1951)
- Francesco Serantini (1952)
- Leonardo Borghese (1953)
- Giuseppe Marotta (1954)
- Alfonso Gatto (1955)
- Giuseppe Lanza (1956)
- Pier Angelo Soldini (1957)
- Lorenzo Montano (1958)
- Italo Calvino (1959)
- Enrico Emanuelli (1960)
- Giorgio Vigolo (1961)
- Giuseppe Dessì (1962)
- Ottiero Ottieri (1963)
- Tommaso Landolfi (1964)
- Biagio Marin (1965)
- Manlio Cancogni (1966)
- Primo Levi (1967)
- Piero Chiara (1968)
- Niccolò Tucci (1969)
- Alberto Vigevani (1970)
- Piero Gadda Conti (1971)
- Anna Banti (1972)
- Sergio Solmi (1973)
- Gianni Celati (1974)
- Enzo Forcella (1975)
- Mario Soldati (1976)
- Sandro Penna (1977)
- Carlo Cassola (1978)
- Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)
- Giovanni Macchia (1980)
- Pietro Citati (1981)
- Vittorio Sereni (1982)
- Giorgio Bassani (1983)
- Natalia Ginzburg (1984)
- Francesca Duranti (1985)
- Leonardo Sciascia (1986)
- Claudio Magris (1987)
- Luciano Erba (1988)
- Luigi Meneghello (1989)
- Fleur Jaeggy (1990)
- Livio Garzanti (1991)
- Giorgio Bocca (1992)
- Giovanni Giudici (1993)
- Alberto Arbasino (1994)
- Daniele Del Giudice (1995)
- Raffaello Baldini (1996)
- Sergio Ferrero (1997)
- Giovanni Raboni (1998)
- Fabio Carpi (1999)
- Andrea Zanzotto
- Mariano Bargellini (2000)
- Serena Vitale (2001)
- Roberto Calasso
- Giorgio Orelli (2002)
- Michele Mari
- Edoardo Sanguineti
- Eva Cantarella (2003)
- Franco Cordero (2004)
- Rosetta Loy (2005)
- Filippo Tuena
- Eugenio Borgna (2006)
- Alessandro Spina (2007)
- Andrej Longo (2008)
- Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
- Corrado Stajano (2010)
- Andrea Bajani (2011)
- Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012)
- Antonella Tarpino (2013)
- Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014)
- Sandro Veronesi (2015)
- Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016)
- Vivian Lamarque (2017)
- Helena Janeczek (2018)
- Marco Balzano (2019)
- Enrico Deaglio (2020)
- Giorgio Fontana (2021)
- Benedetta Craveri (2022)