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COPYRIGHT 2004 Modern Humanities Research Association
Apparizione e visione: vita e opere di Anna Maria Ortese. By LUCA CLERICI. Milan: Mondadori. 2002. 732 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN 88-04-48937-5.
Anna Maria Ortese's first book, Angelici dolori, was published by Bompiani of Milan in 1937, under the auspices of Massimo Bontempelli, who praised the book in a meeting of the Italian Academy and awarded it a prize of 5,000 lire--the first of a series of official subsidies given to the near-destitute Ortese through her long life. In 1944 she received a loan from the RSI Ministero della Cultura Popolare. And in 1986 she was awarded a pension for life. Her amicable relations with governments as different as Mussolini's and Craxi's, and the championing of her by intellectuals of all political persuasions, are two of the strange facts about Anna Maria Ortese, perhaps the most puzzling of major twentieth-century Italian writers.
Since she lived a solitary life...
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