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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XV , n° 2, Dicembre 1997 ( Contributi ) pag. 121-160
TERESA CARNIANI MALVEZZI'S CORRESPONDENCE
WITH GIOVANNI FABBRONI: A TESTIMONY OF
EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY
FLORENTINE AND BOLOGNESE CULTURAL MILIEU*
NATALIA COSTA-ZALESSOW
San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California
The name of Teresa Carniani Malvezzi is usually associated by Italian literary critics with that of Giacomo Leopardi around the unsolved problem as to what exactly happened between the two and what echoes did their relationship leave in the poems of the greatest and most pessimistic Italian Romantic poet. Yet Malvezzi deserves to be examined for other reasons as well: 1/ The education she received or did not receive as a young middle-class girl in late eighteenth-century Florence; 2/ Her love-marriage to a young nobleman from Bologna in
1802; 3/ Her personal efforts as an adult to further her education through private lessons; 4/ Her activities as writer of Italian verse and as translator from English and Latin; 5/ Her literary salon in Bologna and her contacts with men of letters of the early nineteenth century, exemplified, among others, by the correspondence with her uncle Giovanni Fabbroni, preserved in part in the Manuscript Collection of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and at the State Archives in Bologna. [...]
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