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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVII , n° 1, Giugno 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 275-285
IL SOGGIORNO IN INFERNO
AND RELATED WORKS BY AMELIA ROSSELLI
THOMAS PETERSON
The University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia
Arthur Rimbaud writes in Nuit de l'Enfer, "L'enfer ne peut attaquer les paiens", as part of his longer work, Une saison en enfer1. Amelia Rosselli, derivative of Rimbaud, wrote a poem
in 1959 entitled Il soggiorno in inferno, as part of her 1963 poetic sequence Variazioni belliche. The ten lines are an infernal recollection by one over whom "Hell" did have some power. "I think I am in hell, and therefore I am. It is the result of my catechism", wrote Rimbaud. Rosselli, too, was challenged by the "catechism" of her formation. Born in Paris in 1930, Amelia was seven when her father and uncle, Carlo and Nello Rosselli (who had directed the Resistance newspaper and movement, "Giustizia e Libert¨¤"), were assassinated by Fascists. [...]
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