Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti (21 August 1841 – 3 February 1903)[1] was an Italian poet and scholar.[2] Her poetry dealt with contemporary issues, and she became the first woman in Italy to vote.
Bonacci Brunamonti published her first poetry aged 14.[3] Her motto was innovare serbando ("innovation through conservation").[4] Bonacci Brunamonti's poetry explored conflicts, such as the 1859 Perugia uprising, the Battle of Magenta and the Battle of Solferino.[2] As a devout Catholic, she dedicated some of her works to Pope Pius IX.[2] Her poetry used classical metre and verse structures.[4] Bonacci Brunamonti was forced to stop writing following a stroke in 1897.[5]
On 9 November 1860, she was permitted to vote in a plebiscite regarding the annexation of Marche and Umbria to Piedmont, due to her political poetry. She was the first woman in Italy to vote.[6][5]
Her father was Gratiliano Bonacci (1802–1871), a lawyer and professor of rhetoric.[7][6] Born Maria Alinda Bonacci,[6] she married Pietro Brunamonti in 1868.[2][5] Bonacci Brunamonti was born in and died in Perugia, and she lived there for much of her life,[2] also frequently visiting her father's birthplace of Recanati.[7] Bonacci Brunamonti taught at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2] She was a watercolor painter of flowers and plants.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Maria Alinda Bonacci-Brunamonti (1841-1903)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Allegrini, Sandro Francesco (5 June 2017). "Doppio errore alle Poste sul nome di una grande donna perugina: a lei è intestata pure una strada". Perugia Today (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ Warner, Charles Dudley (2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). Cosimo, Inc. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-605-20248-8.
- ^ a b Panizza, Letizzia (2000). A History of Women's Writing in Italy. Cambridge University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-521-57813-4.
- ^ a b c Marin, Chiara (2013). L'arte delle donne: Per una Kunstliteratur al femminile nell'Italia dell'Ottocento. p. 110. ISBN 978-8-862-92408-5.
- ^ a b c "POETESSE / 4 - THE MUSE OF THE RISORGIMENTO". 9colonne (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Le poesie ritrovate di Alina Bonacci Brunamonti, lac ricerca di Antonella Maggini". Il Cittadino di Recanati (in Italian). 15 March 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
Further reading
edit- Antolini, Cornelia (1904). Alinda Brunamonti e Vittoria Colonna: in memoria di Alinda Brunamonti.
- Croce, Benedetto (1914). La letteratura della nuova Italia, vol. II.
- Curatolo, C. (1904). Della vita e delle opere di Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti.
- P. Fasano (1969). Bonacci Brunamonti Maria Alinda, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. XI, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- C. Pigorini Beri (1909). Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti. Reminiscenze, in Nuova Antologia, XLIV (vol. 147, fasc. 907), pp. 473–84.
- P. Pimpinelli (1989). Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti ovvero Una massaia in Parnaso, Tibergraph, Città di Castello.
- L.M. Reale, Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti, il dialetto, le tradizioni popolari e la Flora Umbra (con appendice di testi e glossario), in Contributi di Filologia dell'Italia Mediana, voll. XI (1997) and XII (1998), pp. 195–236 e 127-167.
- C. Peducci (2012). Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti : i discorsi d'arte : un esempio del gusto fin de siècle.
- F. Ciacci, edited by G. D'Elia (2015). L'archivio di Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti. Inventario , Edizioni della Soprintendenza archivistica dell'Umbria e delle Marche.