Gianna Manzini

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Gianna Manzini

Italian author

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Italian literature
Women writers
…existential in nature; fastidious stylist Gianna Manzini, an admirer of Virginia Woolf who is at her best in the autobiographical Ritratto in piedi (1971; “Full-Length Portrait”); and Alba De Céspedes, whose Nessuno torna indietro (1938; “There’s No Turning Back”) was banned by fascist censors.
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…existential in nature; fastidious stylist Gianna Manzini, an admirer of Virginia Woolf who is at her best in the autobiographical Ritratto in piedi (1971; “Full-Length Portrait”); and Alba De Céspedes, whose Nessuno torna indietro (1938; “There’s No Turning Back”) was banned by fascist censors.
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