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Alda Merini was born in Milan on March 21, 1931 to a family of modest means. Her father was a clerk for a national insurance company (Assicurazioni Generali di Venezia) and her mother was a housewife. Alda had an older sister, Anna, and a younger brother, Ezio. Her father encouraged Alda's interest in reading and writing and published a little booklet of her poems when she was ten. He also had a teacher come to the house to give Alda piano lessons. Alda completed elementary school with excellent grades, but at the end of the war her father had no source of income so Alda was sent to the vocational school Laura Solera Mangazza for three years to study stenography. She then applied for admission to the high school Liceo Manzoni, but was not accepted due to an insufficient score on the Italian entry test.
Alda's career as a poet started at very early age. At fifteen she began devoting herself to writing poems. A year later, in 1947, through Silvana Rovelli - cousin of the poe
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Alda Merini
Alda Giuseppina Angela Merini was born on March 21, 1931 (the “Spring Equinox” as she often liked to point out in interviews) in viale Papiniano 57, Milan to a family of modest means. She was raised along the system of canals called the Navigli. Nemo Merini, her father, was an employee of the insurance company Vecchia Mutua Grandine ed Eguaglianza il Duomo. Emilia Painelli, her mother, was a housewife. Alda had two siblings: an older sister, Anna (born in November, 1926), and a younger brother, Ezio (born in January 1943). (Her siblings are featured in several of her poems, although their identity is thinly disguised). As with most Italian girls of her class, little is known about her childhood; she was raised as most girls of the pre- World War II era were raised. (She did, however, later write an autobiographical note on the occasion of the publication of a second edition of an anthology of Italian poetry edited by Giacinto Spagnoletti: “[I was] a sensitive girl, with a rather melancholic character, quite excluded and little understood by my parents but very good in
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Alda Merini, mia madre
Alda Merini is the most loved poet of the Italian ‘900, because she has been able to sublimate her painful biographical experience in pure poetry. This is part of the reason she has been praised by important literary critics and at the same time adored by readers so much so as to become a sort of pop icon.
Her life was fascinating and thrilling, dramatic and exceptional: the precocious talent and the association from a very young age with the great intellectuals of her time, mental illness and hospitalizations in the asylum, the two weddings and the great loves, the celebrity arrived late, the world/neighborhood of Navigli in Milan.
Emanuela Carniti, Alda’s eldest daughter, was born when Alda was twenty-four years old and, the only one of the four daughters not to be fostered and to remain at home with her parents until she was twenty, became a sort of mother to her own. She is therefore able to reconstruct her mother’s life in everyday life and in the domestic dimension, but also in literary and editorial events, made up of years of sil
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