Ida Verona | |
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Born | 1865
Brăila |
Died | August 29, 1925
(aged 59–60) Prčanj |
Occupation | Poet, playwright |
Family | Arthur Garguromin-Verona, Nicolae Henri Verona |
Ida Verona (1865 – August 29, 1925) was a French- and Romanian-language poet, playwright, and painter originating from the Bay of Kotor in today's Montenegro.
Ida Verona was born in Brăila in 1865[ citation needed] (according to other sources, in 1861 [1] or 1863 [2]), the daughter of Dalmatian merchant Francesco Spiridon Verona and Amalia Lucovič or Lucovschi. Brăila contained a colony of Dalmatians who fled the Kotor Bay area. She was educated at a Catholic school, the Notre Dame de Sion, in Brăila. [3] Her brothers were the painters Arthur Verona and Nicolae Henri Verona. [1]
Verona published two books of poetry, Quelques fleurs poétiques and the more celebrated Mimosas. Many of her poems wrestle with the place of women in society. Verona also wrote a number of plays: Domnitz, Fleurs de sang, Aecathe, Jane d’Arc, Abdul Hamid, Creaturès d’amour, and La Tige Dace. [4]
During World War I she worked as a Red Cross nurse. [5] Eventually, she relocated to Prčanj, Montenegro to her grandfather's house and spent the rest of her life there. [6] [2]