This book gives her back all the well-deserved greatness of her, almost always silent until now.ĭownload Andrew G. Her time has vanished, as has the spirit of that time. She Passing through Milan she asks Indro Montanelli to accompany her to Piazzale Loreto. “Margherita Sarfatti – Siniscalchi writes – returns to Italy in March 1947. After leaving Italy in November 1938 for Paris and having failed to repair in the United States, Sarfatti settled in Latin America. A price she paid with the damnatio memoriae. Sarfatti, Siniscalchi writes, joined the regime out of conviction and not out of convenience. The author traces the key steps of the rise and fall of this unique woman, who started from feminism, then attracted to Catholic modernism, socialism, nationalism and interventionism, and finally landed on fascism, always maintaining an autonomous position. Of course, fascism did not believe until the end in the Novecento movement, launched and animated by Sarfatti, but the imprint, the action, the taste, the vision of Sarfatti – the thesis of Siniscalchi – have guided Italian art and diffusion of the artistic avant-gardes in the beautiful country. And again, polyglot, promoter of great art, capable editorialist “. With academic punctuality and a taste for the story”, underlines Borgonovo in the preface, who remembers her as a “woman of many talents, highly cultured and brilliant, editor of prestigious magazines, animator of a literary salon where she welcomed some of the most flamboyant minds of her time. It does so with scientific rigor and literary sensitivity. “Claudio Siniscalchi’s book has the merit of giving Sarfatti back what Sarfatti belongs to. Fascism, America and art in Margherita Sarfatti” by Claudio Siniscalchi (Altaforte Edizioni, 164 pages, 13 euros), from tomorrow in bookstores, with a preface by Francesco Borgonovo. Talking about his life and works is now “Twentieth century. Relegated to the role – really too narrow for her – of Mussolini’s lover, Margherita Sarfatti was one of the most important female figures in Italian culture of the twentieth century.
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