Only in 1934 she made her fiction debut publishing a short story titled Cortile ( Patio) in a magazine. After graduating in Literature from renowned University La Sapienza in Rome, she wrote research papers under the name Agnese Lanzi during most of the 1920s and in 1924 she married art historian Roberto Longhi. The much acclaimed Italian classic Artemisia by Anna Banti shows the struggles of the author rewriting her almost finished first draft of Artemisia Gentileschi’s biography that was destroyed in World War Two and those of the female painter from Renaissance Italy on her way from a raped fourteen-year-old unwilling to put up with her fate to an accepted artist of her own right at the courts of Naples and England.Īnna Banti was born Lucia Lopresti in Florence, Italy, in June 1895, but the family soon moved to Rome. But even with passion and determination to back you, there are moments of weakness and doubt. Only a strong personality can bear the constant fight and the isolation that a life beyond convention often implies and that may also lead into solitude, if not loneliness and resentment. It isn’t easy to defy established role models or other unwritten rules of society to go your own way, to make a career that people say wasn’t meant for you because you were born this or that and to still find happiness.
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