"daughter of 'Willie'. Jane Wilde Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee; 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) was an Irish poet under the pen name ""Speranza"" and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather. She married Sir William Wilde, an eye and ear surgeon, on 12 November 1851 in St. Peter's church in Dublin, and they had three children: William Charles Kingsbury Wilde (1852–1899), Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900), and Isola Francesca Emily Wilde (1857–1867). Her eldest son William Wilde became a journalist and poet,"
"Sperone Speroni Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti (1500–1588) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, scholar and dramatist. He was one of the central members of Padua's literary academy ""Accademia degli Infiammati"" and wrote on both moral and literary matters. Born April 12, 1500 in Padua, Sperone was the second child of Bernardino Speroni degli Alvarotti and Lucia Contarini. In 1518 he obtained the ""artibus"" degree from the University of Padua and joined the Guild (""Sacro Collegio"") of artists and physicians. He lectured on philosophy at Padua, under the Chair of Logic. He interrupted his teachings to study at Bologna under Pietro Pomponazzi"
"wrote temperance fiction in an effort to stop the harsh treatment given to family members of alcoholics. She was motivated to change the social norms surrounding alcoholism. She was also a fanatic about entomology and nature. She wrote many popular children's books under the genre of scientific fiction, the most popular being ""Among the Moths and Butterflies"". Julia Perkins Ballard Julia Perkins Ballard (1828-1894) was an author and poet. Her father was David Pratt and her mother was Julia Perkins Pratt. Mrs. Pratt gave birth to Julia Perkins Ballard in Athens, Ohio, on March 27, 1828. Julia Perkins Ballard was"
"la langue française"". Sperone Speroni Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti (1500–1588) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, scholar and dramatist. He was one of the central members of Padua's literary academy ""Accademia degli Infiammati"" and wrote on both moral and literary matters. Born April 12, 1500 in Padua, Sperone was the second child of Bernardino Speroni degli Alvarotti and Lucia Contarini. In 1518 he obtained the ""artibus"" degree from the University of Padua and joined the Guild (""Sacro Collegio"") of artists and physicians. He lectured on philosophy at Padua, under the Chair of Logic. He interrupted his teachings to study at Bologna"
"Oscar Wilde became a prolific and famous writer, and her daughter Isola Wilde died in childhood. Jane was the last of the four children of Charles Elgee (1783–1824), a Wexford solicitor, and his wife Sarah (née Kingsbury, d. 1851). Her great-grandfather was an Italian who had come to Wexford in the 18th century. Lady Wilde, who was the niece of Charles Maturin, wrote for the Young Ireland movement of the 1840s, publishing poems in ""The Nation"" under the pseudonym of ""Speranza"". Her works included pro-Irish independence and anti-British writing; she was sometimes known as ""Speranza of the Nation"". Charles Gavan"
"Julia Perkins Ballard Julia Perkins Ballard (1828-1894) was an author and poet. Her father was David Pratt and her mother was Julia Perkins Pratt. Mrs. Pratt gave birth to Julia Perkins Ballard in Athens, Ohio, on March 27, 1828. Julia Perkins Ballard was also the wife of a prominent minister and scholar, Rev. Dr. Addison Ballard. She married Ballard on August 7, 1851. Julia Perkins Ballard moved often as she followed her husband from job to job. Her literary works focused on entomology, temperance, nature, and children's science books. She often used the pseudonym Kruna when writing temperance fiction. Kruna"
"Gaspara Stampa Gaspara Stampa (1523 – 23 April 1554) was an Italian poet. She is considered to have been the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and she is regarded by many as the greatest Italian woman poet of any age. Born in Padua, Stampa's father, Bartolomeo, originally from Milan, was a jewel and gold merchant in Padua. When Gaspara was eight, her father died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with her children Gaspara, Cassandra, and Baldassarre; whom she educated in literature, music, history, and painting. Gaspara and Cassandra excelled at singing and playing the lute, possibly"
"Valeria Miani Valeria Miani (1563 – 1620) was a female playwright noted for her works Celina, a Tragedy, and Amorosa Speranza. Miani married Domenico Negri in 1593, with whom she had five children, Isabetta, Isabella, Lucretia, Guilio, and Anzolo. Miani is known for being the first woman to publish a tragedy prior to the 18th century. In addition, she was the third woman in Italy to write in the newly popular genre, the pastoral. Miani's works explored themes such as cross-dressing, death and punishment, female virtue, and female resilience. Miani was born in the year 1563, most likely in the"
"her writing career. Miani and her husband are known to have five children. Their three daughters were Lucretia, Isabella, and Isabetta, and their two sons were Guilio ad Anzolo. Very little is known regarding the death of Valeria Miani. While it is known that she died in the year 1620, a specific date is not given. The place of her death is not known either, though it is likely that she passed somewhere in her home country of Italy. Miani's first pastoral drama, Amorosa Speranza was published in 1604. It took Miani six years to have her play published, having"
"her father. Notes Sources Pelagio (opera) Pelagio is an opera (tragedia lirica) in four acts by Saverio Mercadante. The Italian-language libretto was by Marco D'Arienzo. It premiered on 12 February 1857 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, to great success. The opera had further successful performances in Milan and Lisbon. In modern times, ""Pelagio"" was performed in 2005 in Gijón, Spain, and in 2008 at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. ""Pelagio"" is an opera with ""roots in the bel canto tradition that shows the influence of Verdi"", and the work has been described as rich in ""excellent music"", with ""at"
"kept composing poetries, partly collected in ""Libro per la sera della domenica"". In 1907 he eventually returned in his home in Rome, where he died on 17 June 1907, aged 21 years old. Sergio Corazzini Sergio Corazzini (6 February 1886 – 17 June 1907) was an Italian poet, a member of the Crepuscolari movement. Born in Rome into a wealthy family, Corazzini formed at the Collegio Umberto I, where he was passionate author and director of the college's puppet theater. Because of his family's economic difficulties due to his father's reckless speculations on the stock market and to his mother's"
"submitted it to her publisher in 1598. Her publisher and editor Francesco Bolzetta had the play in his possession for years before he decided to put it into print. Bolzetta was the primary publisher for the Ricovrati of Padua, the same academy which Miani was in contact with. By publishing Amorosa Speranza, Miani became the third woman in Italy to have ever published a nonreligious play. The play Amorosa Speranza appears to have not been written for print, but rather for performance. Multiple times during the play the performer addresses the audience, even so much as having the prologue of"
"tragedy that befalls the two young lovers, complete with suicide and vendettas, both common motifs in the tragedy genre. Valeria Miani Valeria Miani (1563 – 1620) was a female playwright noted for her works Celina, a Tragedy, and Amorosa Speranza. Miani married Domenico Negri in 1593, with whom she had five children, Isabetta, Isabella, Lucretia, Guilio, and Anzolo. Miani is known for being the first woman to publish a tragedy prior to the 18th century. In addition, she was the third woman in Italy to write in the newly popular genre, the pastoral. Miani's works explored themes such as cross-dressing,"
"Westland Row, Dublin (now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College), the second of three children born to Sir William Wilde and Jane Wilde, two years behind William (""Willie""). Wilde's mother had distant Italian ancestry, and under the pseudonym """"Speranza"""" (the Italian word for 'hope'), wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848; she was a lifelong Irish nationalist. She read the Young Irelanders' poetry to Oscar and Willie, inculcating a love of these poets in her sons. Lady Wilde's interest in the neo-classical revival showed in the paintings and busts of ancient Greece and Rome in her"
"Canace (play) Canace is a verse tragedy by Italian playwright Sperone Speroni (1500-1588). It is based on the Greek legend of Canace, the daughter of Aeolus, who was forced by her father to commit suicide for having fallen in love with her brother, Macar. The play was composed for Padua's literary academy, the ""Accademia degli Infiammati"", and was printed at Firenze on 1546. The play was heavily modeled on Senecan tragedy. The work was highly polemical, and was performed only once. The public's reaction led Speroni to write an ""Apologia"" (1550), which he never finished. Still, the play circulated widely,"
"Nicholas Grimald Nicholas Grimald (or Grimoald) (1519–1562) was an English poet and dramatist. Nicholas Grimald was born to a modest yeoman family of farmers in 1519–20. His parents are unknown, despite the popular belief that his father was Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi. The poem ""A funeral song, upon the death of Annes his moother"", accounts for his mother's death. Grimald's mother has been speculated to be Agnes Gyrmbold, who dies in 1555. The poem mentions his hardworking father, but focuses upon the fondness that he had for his mother. Grimald saw his parents love and devotion for each other and expressed"
"Nicholas Grimald Nicholas Grimald (or Grimoald) (1519–1562) was an English poet and dramatist. Nicholas Grimald was born to a modest yeoman family of farmers in 1519–20. His parents are unknown, despite the popular belief that his father was Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi. The poem ""A funeral song, upon the death of Annes his moother"", accounts for his mother's death. Grimald's mother has been speculated to be Agnes Gyrmbold, who dies in 1555. The poem mentions his hardworking father, but focuses upon the fondness that he had for his mother. Grimald saw his parents love and devotion for each other and expressed"
"the poetry theorist Crescimbeni. Some of them are inspired by her father's works, while others pivot around female figures of the Roman Republic. Faustina Maratti Faustina Maratti (c. 1679–1745) was an Italian Baroque poet and painter. Maratti was born in Rome, the natural daughter of the painter Carlo Maratta (or Maratti). From an early age, she received a good education, which included music, fine arts and, above all, poetry. Her beauty attracted the attention of Giangiorgio Sforza Cesarini, a cadet son of the Duke of Genzano, near Rome, where Maratta had retired. After her refusal, Sforza Cesarini tried to kidnap"
"San Giorgio di Piano, near Bologna. Her father was a violinist and her mother was a schoolteacher. When Masina was four, her uncle took her to meet the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, who was later to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A few years later, when this uncle passed away, his widow, Masina's aunt, asked Masina's parents if they would allow her to come to Rome to stay with her. Masina's parents agreed, in part because they believed that in Rome Masina would have more success in the arts, for which she was already demonstrating a unique talent. Masina"
"was a watercolor painter of flowers and plants. Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti (21 August 1841 – 3 February 1903) was an Italian poet and scholar. Her poetry dealt with contemporary issues, and she became the first woman in Italy to vote. Bonacci Brunamonti published her first poetry aged 14. Her motto was ""innovare serbando"" (""innovation through conservation""). Bonacci Brunamonti's poetry explored conflicts, such as the 1859 Perugia uprising, the Battle of Magenta and the Battle of Solferino. As a devout Catholic, she dedicated some of her works to Pope Pius IX. Her poetry used classical metre"
"stop writing following a stroke in 1897. On 9 November 1860, she was permitted to vote in a plebiscite regarding the annexation of Marche and Umbria to Piedmont, due to her political poetry. She was the first woman in Italy to vote. Her father was Gratiliano Bonacci (1802–1871), a lawyer and professor of rhetoric. Born Maria Alinda Bonacci, she married Pietro Brunamonti in 1868. Bonacci Brunamonti was born in and died in Perugia, and she lived there for much of her life, also frequently visiting her father's birthplace of Recanati. Bonacci Brunamonti taught at the Sapienza University of Rome. She"
"Aurelia Plath Aurelia Frances Plath (née Schober; April 26, 1906 – March 11, 1994) was the wife of Otto Emil Plath, the mother of the American poet Sylvia Plath, and her brother Warren, and the grandmother of Frieda Rebecca Hughes and Nicholas Farrar Hughes. Aurelia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Franz (Frank) Schober of Bad Aussee, Styria, and his wife Aurelia Grünwald (Greenwood). Sylvia Plath made reference to her grandmother by making ""Esther Greenwood"" the name of the heroine in her semi-autobiographical novel ""The Bell Jar"". The relationship between Aurelia and her daughter was a rather"
"born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. Pietro, his father, aged about fifty, belonged to an old family of Lecco, originally feudal lords of Barzio, in the Valsassina. The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author and philosopher, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well. The young Alessandro spent his first two years of life in ""cascina Costa"" in Galbiate and he was wet-nursed by Caterina Panzeri, as attested by a memorial plate affixed in the place. In 1792 his parents broke their marriage and his mother began a relationship with the highbrow Carlo Imbonati,"
"indicated that he had been moved. He had been out riding his mule the day before when he was ambushed and stabbed 22 times. His brothers, Lorenzo and Guido Strozzi, beseeched Francesco Gonzaga to avenge the death, but the perpetrators were never discovered; his wife, Barabara, also sought Gonzaga's protection following this event, for her and Ercole's daughter was only 13 days old at the time of the murder, while he also had another child by her and two other illegitimate children. Ercole Strozzi Ercole Strozzi (Ferrara, September 2, 1473 – Ferrara, June 6, 1508) was an Italian poet, the"
"Florbela Espanca Florbela Espanca (; born , ) was a Portuguese poet known for her erotic and feminist writing. Fernando Pessoa later said she was his ""twin soul"". Born Flor Bela d'Alma da Conceição on 8 December 1894 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, Espanca was the daughter of Antónia da Conceição Lobo who worked as a housemaid for Espanca's father, João Maria Espanca, a photographer and businessman. Her father's wife, Mariana do Carmo Inglesa Espanca, who was unable to have her own children, agreed for Espanca to live in their home, where she was raised from birth by both her father's"
"Isabella Cervoni Isabella Cervoni (Colle Val d'Elsa, 1575–1600) was an Italian poet of the Counter-Reformation period, active between 1590 and 1600. She wrote encomiastic and polemical poems addressed to numerous secular and religious dignitaries of the Italian Renaissance, including Pope Clement VIII, Maria de' Medici, Christina of Lorraine and Henry IV of France. She was praised for her talent and ambition by Cristoforo Bronzini in his 1625 dialogue ""Della dignità delle donne, dialogo…settimana prima e giornata quarta"" as having ""given the world many beautiful and spiritual compositions"" despite her ""most tender age."" Cervoni was the daughter of the poet Giovanni"
"the film ""Ma mère est folle"". The comedy follows the exploits of a rather eccentric mother (played by Fanny Ardant), and her young son (played by the singer Vianney). Sacha Sperling Sacha Sperling (born Yacha Kurys) is a French writer born in Paris May 17th, 1990. He is the son of filmmakers Diane Kurys and Alexandre Arcady, and half-brother of film director Alexandre Aja. He attended the École alsacienne up to baccalaureat, but abandoned undergraduate literary studies to devote himself to writing. His first novel, Mes illusions donnent sur la cour, published in 2009 was a commercial and critical success"
"Faltonia Betitia Proba Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. AD 306/315 – c. 353/366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the ""Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi"", a cento composed with verses by Virgil re-ordered to form an epic poem centred on the life of Jesus. Proba belonged to an influential family of the 4th century, the ""Petronii Probi"". Her father was Petronius Probianus, Roman consul in 322, while her mother was probably called Demetria. She had a brother, Petronius Probinus, appointed"
"between 1960-1980. He was a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Umberto Piersanti Umberto Piersanti (born February 26, 1941) is an Italian poet, prose writer, professor of sociology of the literature at the University of Urbino, in Italy, and editor of the literary revue ""Pelagos"". He was born in Urbino. During his writing career, Piersanti published many poetry books, some novels and essays. He made his debut in 1967 with the collection of poems ""La breve stagione""; the melancholy preponderated in his juvenile poems, with Apennine nature, transformed into a mythical and classic place. In ""Nascere nel"
"""Adelasia"" ""La famiglia"", ""Carmela"" ""Piccarda Donati"", ""Saffo"", ""Rosalinda"", etc. Subjects from modern and medieval history were treated by him, and he followed his father's example in drawing from Dante. Leopoldo Marenco Leopoldo Marenco (born at Ceva in 1831; died 1899) was an Italian dramatic poet, now known as a librettist. His father was Carlo Marenco. Like his father he held a government post under the Treasury Department, one which took him to Sardinia. In 1860 he became Professor of Latin literature at Bologna University, and later occupied a similar chair at Milan University. In 1871 he retired to Turin. His"
"wrote on a further version of ""Charneca em Flor"". Florbela Espanca Florbela Espanca (; born , ) was a Portuguese poet known for her erotic and feminist writing. Fernando Pessoa later said she was his ""twin soul"". Born Flor Bela d'Alma da Conceição on 8 December 1894 in Vila Viçosa, Portugal, Espanca was the daughter of Antónia da Conceição Lobo who worked as a housemaid for Espanca's father, João Maria Espanca, a photographer and businessman. Her father's wife, Mariana do Carmo Inglesa Espanca, who was unable to have her own children, agreed for Espanca to live in their home, where"
"Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti (21 August 1841 – 3 February 1903) was an Italian poet and scholar. Her poetry dealt with contemporary issues, and she became the first woman in Italy to vote. Bonacci Brunamonti published her first poetry aged 14. Her motto was ""innovare serbando"" (""innovation through conservation""). Bonacci Brunamonti's poetry explored conflicts, such as the 1859 Perugia uprising, the Battle of Magenta and the Battle of Solferino. As a devout Catholic, she dedicated some of her works to Pope Pius IX. Her poetry used classical metre and verse structures. Bonacci Brunamonti was forced to"
"Laura Terracina Laura Terracina (1519-c. 1577) was an Italian poet from Naples during the Renaissance. She was the most published Italian poet of the sixteenth century. Terracina was born in Chiaia, a suburb of Naples. Her mother, Diana Anfora of Sorrento and father, Paolo Terracina, had at least one more daughter and two sons. She may have received encouragement from the famous poet Vittoria Colonna, who possibly sent her a brief poem praising her talents. In 1545, she became a member of the Academia of the Incogniti in Naples, and knew and corresponded with several literari figures. Despite the suppression"