What is it about?
Like other women of her time, Rosina Muzio Salvo played an active part in events of the Risorgimento, and thanks to her literary works, she was also directly involved in the creation and regulation of the Italian nation state. Her works are characterised by a proud and vibrant authorial voice, especially those written during the anti-Bourbon revolution of 1848. After Unification, she contributed to several women’s magazines, in an effort to outline and promote models of conduct for women in the new Italy. As a patriot and a woman of letters, through her engagement in the struggles of the Risorgimento, Rosina Muzio Salvo paved the way for later struggles for civil rights in the years to come.
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Why is it important?
By means of the chronological reconstruction of unpublished correspondence between the Sicilian writer Rosina Muzio Salvo (1815–1866) and the intellectual and patriot Francesco Paolo Perez (1812–1892), this article intends to provide a valuable archive of bio-bibliographical information about Salvo, a still little-known figure of the Italian Risorgimento.
Perspectives
This article is part of a broader research I am carrying out as a PhD candidate in Italian Literature. I hope it makes people aware of the existance of some little-known women writers who lived and worked in the years of the Italian Risorgimento. Through their literary works, these authors gave an important contribution to the Italian Unification but most of them have been forgotten with the passage of time.
Marta Riccobono
Scuola Normale Superiore
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This page is a summary of: Voci dal Risorgimento siciliano. Il carteggio inedito tra Rosina Muzio Salvo e Francesco Paolo Perez, The Italianist, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2018.1515816.
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