Tuscan important woman in literature
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence on the 29th of June of 1929. Her father, an active antifascist, involved her in the resistance movement as a sentinel. Carrying weapons from one side to the other of the Arno; at the age of fourteen she received a medal from the Italian army. After the high school she began her carrier as a journalist in a daily newspaper called “Mattino dell’Italia centrale”. She worked in Milan, in New York and for the weekly newspaper “Europeo” in Vietnam and Indo-China. In the 60's she began to write books, like “Penelope alla Guerra”, “Se il sole muore” and “Niente e così sia”. The first one is a novel in which a girl called Giovanna goes in New York for work, there she has a lot of adventures and she meets two boys, Richard, known at the time of the war, and Bill. She falls in love with Richard but at the same time she’s attracted by Bill too, her love story is strange, based on long Richard’s silent moments, with other friends she finds out Richard’s secret, he’s homosexual and he’s in love with Bill, in a first time she tries to escape from this situation but then she faces it. The second book is a diary about the American landing on the moon and the last is about the war in Vietnam. On the eve of the Olympic games of 1968, during a protest of some Mexican students, the writer was wounded by a gun, everyone believed she was dead and she’s been taken to a morgue, only a priest noticing she was still alive took her to an hospital. After this event she didn’t give up and she continued her work as writer and journalist. The next year she went in America to see the launch of the mission Apollo 11 and she’s the one who wrote the famous sentence of the commandant of the mission, Charles Conrad: “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me”, referring to his short height. In 1973 she met Alekos Panagulis, a leader of the opposition movement to the Greek regime in that time, and she became his partner until the man’s death in a car incident.
She wrote his story in the book called “Un uomo”. Other important books are “Lettere a un bambino mai nato” and “Insciallah”. The first one is a monologue about the thoughts of a woman who’s pregnant and she doesn’t know if the baby wants to be born or not, after that the woman realizes that the world near her is an horrible place, she makes the baby dies and the woman receives accusations from the society around her. The second one is a novel about the civil war in Lebanon and it takes place between the Italian troops. In the last period of her life she lived in New York and she lectured in many American famous Universities like University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. After September 11 2001 she wrote three books criticising Islam extremists and the Islamic religion in general, because of this she received much public attention on newspapers. She died in Florence in 2006 at the age of 77 after a lung cancer caused by her bad habit of smoking. Her dream was to die in Florence in a Tower called “dei Mannelli” watching the Arno. The tower’s in the zone where the partisans’ headquarter was and she went there, when she was a child, with her father.
"women research group"
Francesca Chirico; Sara Zari
written by Francesca Chirico
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
What’s a Comenius program?
The
Comenius programmes are an ambitious initiative introduced by the
European Union in 1995 to promote the learning of languages, the
environmental and scientific education and association between different
schools of Europe. One of the Comenius programs sections, called
“Comenius School Partnerships”, is the one which allows students and
teachers of different European schools to work together and share
experiences in joint projects.
What’s this Comenius program about?
Particularly
this project – which was approved last summer and will be carried out
along two school years – is called “Ladies and Gentlemen, Our Historical
Heritage” and tries to investigate and prepare an essay, and finally
expose it, about the life and work of men and women who have been
especially important in our local history. The common language used to
make all the contacts and expositions will be English, even though this
project also promotes the use of other European languages.
Which countries, cities and schools are going to take part in this project?
The three involved schools are:
• The “I.E.S. Federico GarcíaBernalt” in Salamanca, Spain.
• The “Oskar von Miller Gymnasium” in Münich, Germany.
• The “Liceo C. Salutati” in Montecatini Terme, Italy.
• The “Oskar von Miller Gymnasium” in Münich, Germany.
• The “Liceo C. Salutati” in Montecatini Terme, Italy.
LUIGI BERTELLI
Luigi Bertelli, also well-known as Vamba, name taken from the buffoon of “Ivanhoe”, was born in Florence in 1858 and he was an italian writer and journalist and a good educator too. During his life he wrote texts in prose, prose poems, children’s fiction and lively sonnets in Florence’s dialect. In 1887 took place his firts publication with the satirical texts’ collection “Il Barbabianca”. In 1895 he published “Il Ciondolino”, story with didactic intents about a child who’s turned into an ant. Three years later he published a text of political satire “L’onorevole Qualunqui e i suoi ultimi mesi di vita parlamentare”, but he aspired to create a greater, a production much more interesting and innovative in the journalism’s world for children. In 1906 he founded ‘’Il giornalino della Domenica’’, which will be a patriotic and irredentist propaganda medium and that kept publishing until the 1924. On its pages he published in 55 episodes “Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca” between the 1907 and the 1908: the novel was published in a volume by the publisher Benpored in 1911 and afterwards it was reprinted many times over. During his stay in Rome, Luigi Bertelli cooperated with the political weekly newspaper “Il Fanfulla della Domenica” where he published many sonnets in Florence’s dialect. His last composition was published in 1915: “I bimbi d’Italia si chiaman Balilla” that was dedicated to the brothers Giacomo and Augusto Morpurgo. They were Salomone Morpurgo’s (the librarian) sons, Giacomo died during the war in the 1916 and Augusto during the proclamation of racial laws (his necrology is the only one published in memory of a Jew). Luigi Bertelli died in 1920 and he was bured in the cemetery of San Miniato in Florence.
IL GIORNALINO DI GIAN BURRASCA
“Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca” is surely Vamba’s most popular novel in Toscany and in Italy too. The book is written like a diary, Giovanni Stoppani’s diary, the protagonist.
Giovanni is a nine years old boy with three sisters and a very rich father. His family called him “Gian Burrasca” because of his restless behavior (label that has become proverbial in Italy to indicate a very undisciplined boy). For his birthday he receives a little book where he writes everyday about his experiences. Gian Burrasca’s events are a lot and all with negative results for the poor boy that, at the end of the novel, will be sent by the family into a house of correction with one of his friends because of their bad behaviors. The end of the book lets us portend the possibilty of another Gian Burrasca’s book, continuation that was impossibile because the author died shortly afterwards the publication of the first book.
Research gruop "men"
Francesca Melosi Camilla Pagni
written by
Francesca Melosi
Luigi Bertelli, also well-known as Vamba, name taken from the buffoon of “Ivanhoe”, was born in Florence in 1858 and he was an italian writer and journalist and a good educator too. During his life he wrote texts in prose, prose poems, children’s fiction and lively sonnets in Florence’s dialect. In 1887 took place his firts publication with the satirical texts’ collection “Il Barbabianca”. In 1895 he published “Il Ciondolino”, story with didactic intents about a child who’s turned into an ant. Three years later he published a text of political satire “L’onorevole Qualunqui e i suoi ultimi mesi di vita parlamentare”, but he aspired to create a greater, a production much more interesting and innovative in the journalism’s world for children. In 1906 he founded ‘’Il giornalino della Domenica’’, which will be a patriotic and irredentist propaganda medium and that kept publishing until the 1924. On its pages he published in 55 episodes “Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca” between the 1907 and the 1908: the novel was published in a volume by the publisher Benpored in 1911 and afterwards it was reprinted many times over. During his stay in Rome, Luigi Bertelli cooperated with the political weekly newspaper “Il Fanfulla della Domenica” where he published many sonnets in Florence’s dialect. His last composition was published in 1915: “I bimbi d’Italia si chiaman Balilla” that was dedicated to the brothers Giacomo and Augusto Morpurgo. They were Salomone Morpurgo’s (the librarian) sons, Giacomo died during the war in the 1916 and Augusto during the proclamation of racial laws (his necrology is the only one published in memory of a Jew). Luigi Bertelli died in 1920 and he was bured in the cemetery of San Miniato in Florence.
IL GIORNALINO DI GIAN BURRASCA
“Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca” is surely Vamba’s most popular novel in Toscany and in Italy too. The book is written like a diary, Giovanni Stoppani’s diary, the protagonist.
Giovanni is a nine years old boy with three sisters and a very rich father. His family called him “Gian Burrasca” because of his restless behavior (label that has become proverbial in Italy to indicate a very undisciplined boy). For his birthday he receives a little book where he writes everyday about his experiences. Gian Burrasca’s events are a lot and all with negative results for the poor boy that, at the end of the novel, will be sent by the family into a house of correction with one of his friends because of their bad behaviors. The end of the book lets us portend the possibilty of another Gian Burrasca’s book, continuation that was impossibile because the author died shortly afterwards the publication of the first book.
Research gruop "men"
Francesca Melosi Camilla Pagni
written by
Francesca Melosi
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