- Ada Negri
Ada Negri (
February 3 ,1870 -January 11 ,1945 ) was an Italianpoet .She was born in Lodi into an artisan family to Giuseppe Negri, and his wife Vittoria Cornalba, and became a village school-teacher. Her first book of poems, "Tempeste" (1891), tells the helpless
tragedy of the forsaken poor, in words of vehement beauty.Her second volume of lyrics, "Fatalità", confirmed her reputation as a poet, and led to her appointment to the normal school at Milan; but her later verse, while striking in its sincerity, has been thought to suffer from a tendency to repetition and consequent mannerism.
She became the first woman member of the
Italian Academy in 1940.References
*1911
Further reading
* cite web|title=Ada Negri|language=Italian|publisher=Italia Donna
url=http://www.italiadonna.it/public/percorsi/biografie/f076.htm
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