Anna Banti
Biography
Anna Banti was born in Florence in 1895 as Lucia Lopestri. The family moved to Rome where she met the historian and art critic Roberto Longhi who was her teacher and, later, her husband. She graduated in art history with a thesis on the art writer Marco Boschini. Longhi and Banti founded an art and literary magazine, called Paragone, for which she was the literary editor. Her initial writings were as an art critic and it is only later that she started writing stories and novels. Her main theme was on the role of women in society. She died in 1985.
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Lopresti, Lucia (pseudonimo Anna Banti) (in Italian)
Bibliography
1937 Itinerario di Paolina
1940 Il Coraggio delle Donne
1941 Sette Lune
1942 Le monache cantano
1947 Artemisia (Artemisia)
1951 Le donne muoiono (stories)
1953 Il bastardo
1954 Allarme sul lago
1957 La monaca di Sciangai (stories)
1960 Corte Savella
1961 La casa piccola
1961 Opinioni
1962 Le mosche d’oro
1963 Campi Elisi (stories)
1965 Matilde Serao
1967 Noi credevamo
1971 Je vous écris d’un pays lointain (stories)
1973 La camicia bruciata
1975 Da un paese vicino
1977 Giovanni da San Giovanni: pittore della contraddizione
1978 Lorenzo Lotto
1981 Un grido lacerante (A Piercing Cry)
1981 Rivelazione di Lorenzo Lotto
1982 Quando anche le donne si misero a dipingere
1983 Il coraggio delle donne (stories)
1996 Lavinia fuggita (stories)
2001 Signorina e altri racconti (The Signorina and Other Stories)
2008 Cinema: 1950 – 1977