Renata Viganò
Italian writer
Renata Viganò (1900–1976) was an Italian writer best known for her neo-realist novel L'Agnese va a morire, published in 1949.[1] She was an active participant in the Italian Resistance movement during World War II and included fictionalized accounts of her experiences as a partisan in her written work.[2]
Life
Viganò was born in Bologna on 17 June 1900. As an adolescent, she published two books of poetry, Ginestra in fiore (1912) and Piccola fiamma (1915).[3]
Vigano was a member of the Italian Communist Party.[4] During World War II, she participated in the resistance as a nurse and courier in Emilia-Romagna region.[5] Together with her husband, Antonio Meluschi, she helped to organize armed resistance activities in the Po Valley.[6]
Viganò published several novels in the postwar period, including L'Agnese va a morire (1949) which tells the story of a washerwoman living in the countryside who joins the Communist resistance. The book became popular among Italian Communists at the time and established Viganò's position as a literary figure in the community.[6] It won the Italian Viareggio Prize and was adapted into the film L'agnese va a morire in 1976 by Giuliano Montaldo.[3]
In addition to L'Agnese, much of Viganò's other work also focuses on themes of labor, resistance and women's role in Italian society.[4] She wrote two collections of short stories (including Matrimonio in brigata, 1976, published in English as Partisan Wedding) and a reference volume about women who participated in the resistance (Donne nella Resistenza).[7] She also worked as a journalist, contributing to L'Unità, Rinascita, Corriere Padano and Noi donne.
In the post-war period, her house in via Mascarella in Bologna was frequented by intellectuals such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sibilla Aleramo, Antonio Meluschi [it] and Nella Nobili, former partisans and students.[8]
From 1951 to 1955, she wrote an advice column for Noi donne on topics related to womanhood and motherhood aimed at leftist women.[9] In 1952, she published Mondine, a collection of personal essays about the so-called female mondina workers and the struggle to improve their conditions.[4]
Viganò died in Bologna on 23 April 1976.[10] In 2018, the city of Bologna in collaboration with the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (ANPI, National Association of Italian Partisans) erected a plaque commemorating the longtime home of Viganò and her husband.[11]
Works
- Ginestra in fiore, 1913[6]
- Piccola flamma, 1916
- Il lume spento, 1933
- L'Agnese va a morire, 1949
- Mondine, 1952
- Arriva la cicogna, 1954
- Donne della Resistenza, 1955
- Ho conosciuto Ciro, 1959
- Una storia di ragazze, 1962
- Matrimonio in brigata, 1976; English translation published 1999
- Rosario, 1984 (posthumous)
References
- ^ Branciforte, Suzanne (1999). "Introduction: Renata Viganò Life and Works". In Viganò, Renata (ed.). Partisan Wedding: Stories. University of Missouri Press. pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780826212283.
- ^ McPhee, Jenny (2 January 2000). "Italy's Women Warriors". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- Wood, Sharon (1995). "From Fascism to Reconstruction". Italian Women's Writing, 1860–1994. A&C Black. p. 114. - ^ a b "Renata Viganò". Biblioteca Salaborsa (in Italian). Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ a b c Ruberto, Laura E. (2009). Gramsci, migration, and the representation of women's work in Italy and the U.S. Lexington Books. pp. 40–47. ISBN 9780739144329.
- ^ Branciforte, Suzanne (1999). "Introduction: Renata Viganò Life and Works". In Viganò, Renata (ed.). Partisan Wedding: Stories. University of Missouri Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780826212283.
- Pugliese, Stanislao (2004). "November 1943: Renata Viganò". Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 228. ISBN 9780742579712. - ^ a b c Brunori Deigan, Federica (2006). "Renata Viganò (1900-1976)". In Marrone, Gaetana (ed.). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. pp. 1989–1991. ISBN 9781135455293.
- ^ Branciforte, Suzanne (1999). "Introduction: Renata Viganò Life and Works". In Viganò, Renata (ed.). Partisan Wedding: Stories. University of Missouri Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780826212283.
- ^ "Nella Nobili". Bologna Online (in Italian). Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ Morris, Penelope (2018). "Problems and Prescriptions: Motherhood and Mammismo in Postwar Italian Advice Columns and Fiction". La Mamma : interrogating a national stereotype. Springer. pp. 86–87. ISBN 9781137542564.
- ^ "All'Archiginnasio l'archivio di Renata Viganò e Antonio Meluschi" [At the Archiginnasio the archive of Renata Viganò and Antonio Meluschi] (in Italian). Istituzione Biblioteche di Bologna. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
- ^ "Una targa in via Mascarella per Renata Viganò, partigiana e scrittrice" [A plaque in via Mascarella for Renata Viganò, partisan and writer]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 17 June 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
- Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
- Corrado Tumiati (1931)
- Antonino Foschini (1932)
- Achille Campanile (1933)
- Raffaele Calzini (1934)
- Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
- Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
- Guelfo Civinini (1937)
- Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
- Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)
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