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Showing posts with label Eleonora Duse. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Eleonora Duse. Show all posts

27 August 2022

Lina Poletti - writer and feminist

One of first Italian women to come out as gay Poletti was an intellectual and a feminist campaigner The writer, poet and playwright Lina Pol...

27 September 2018

Grazia Deledda - Nobel Prize winner

First Italian woman to be honoured Grazia Deledda was the first Italian woman to win a Nobel Prize The novelist Grazia Deledda, who ...

18 September 2018

Alberto Franchetti - opera composer

Caruso sang his arias on first commercial record in 1902 Alberto Franchetti enjoyed his peak years in terms of popular success around ...

3 October 2017

Eleonora Duse – actress

Performer 'became' the person she played with her whole being Eleonora Duse began acting at the age of four. Regarded as ...

12 March 2016

Gabriele D’Annunzio – writer and patriot

Military hero influenced Mussolini with his distinctive style Gabriele D'Annunzio: writer and military hero, pictured in the 1930...

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