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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVII , n° 1, Giugno 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 185-202
THE ANONYMITY AND IGNOMINY:
ABSENCE AS AN ASSET IN ALERAMO'S UNA DONNA
COLLEEN MARIE RYAN
University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana
Quel che importa non è nominare, è mostrare le cose.
(Il passaggio, 1919).


Sibilla Aleramo was the professional name adopted by Rina Faccio (1876-1960). She was the first of four children born to a modest bourgeois couple in Milan, and she turned to writing as a
therapeutic exercise during her painful experience of marriage and domestic isolation. Aleramo's work proved that showing could be more important, and even more powerful, than naming. Her first book (1906), then and now a seminal text in the study of Italian feminist writings, recounts the story of a female subject who grows up with only her father
as a role-model; a science teacher turned factory manager, he is ambitious and self-assured. Her mother, instead, is weak and helpless. [...]
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