Italian writer, germanist, medievalist and university professor
Laura Mancinelli
Born (1933-12-18 ) 18 December 1933
Udine ,
Friuli-Venezia Giulia ,
Kingdom of Italy Died 7 July 2016(2016-07-07) (aged 82)
Turin ,
Piedmont ,
Italy Resting place Exilles Cemetery,
Exilles , Piedmont, Italy, IT Occupation writer, author of
novels ,
germanist and
translator ,
medievalist Nationality Italian Alma mater
University of Turin Notable works The Song of the Nibelungs. Problems and values
The Twelve Abbots of Challant The Miracle of Saint Odilia
Laura Mancinelli
OMRI (18 December 1933 – 7 July 2016) was an
Italian
writer ,
germanist ,
medievalist and university professor.
[1]
Mancinelli also wrote academic texts, children's books,
essays (numerous of
medieval history), and
novels .
[2]
Life
Laura Mancinelli was born in
Udine in 1933, then, after a period of short stays between
Rovereto and
Mantua where she spent her early childhood, in 1937 the family moved permanently to
Turin .
After her school education and studies, she graduated from the
University of Turin in 1956 with a degree in
german literature with a focus on
modern literature .
In the years following her doctorate she taught without ever giving up her passion for medieval german culture. In 1969 she wrote the essay The Song of the Nibelungs. Problems and values .
In the 1970s she taught
germanic philology at the
University of Sassari and then called in
Venice by the Germanist
Ladislao Mittner [
de ] , in 1976 she founded the Department of
History of German Language at the
University of Venice .
[3]
On the advice of his colleague and friend,
Claudio Magris , in 1972 she edited and translated into
Italian from the original volume, the
Nibelungenlied , followed in 1978 by
Tristan [
de ] (
Gottfried von Straßburg ) and in 1989 by
Gregorius and
Poor Heinrich (
Hartmann von Aue
[4] ).
In the early 1990s, affected by
multiple sclerosis , Laura Mancinelli left the Chair of german philology.
Mancinelli died on 7 July 2016 in Turin as a result of her illness.
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
The farewell ceremony took place on 11 July 2016 in the monumental cemetery of Turin; the funeral took place in
Exilles in the
Susa Valley , where the writer had set one of her novels.
Career
Writing career
After returning to Turin as holder of the University Chair of germanic philology, in 1981 Laura Mancinelli made her debut in fiction, publishing,
The Twelve Abbots of Challant (winner the same year of the
Mondello Prize
[9] ), a historical novel that the author had begun to write in 1968. After came Il fantasma di Mozart in 1986 and
The Miracle of Saint Odilia in 1989.
Other works were:
Amadé , a tale of
Mozart 's
journey in Turin as an adolescent; La casa del tempo ; Gli occhi dell'imperatore , winner of the
Rapallo Prize in 1994; Raskolnikov ; I tre cavalieri del Graal and Il principe scalzo . In 1999, the theatrical performance Notte con Mozart , based on the play of the same name in two acts (published in 1991), was performed at
Regio in Turin.
From 1994 onwards, she devoted herself entirely to writing and published more than fifteen works throughout the decade, despite hospital stays and lengthy rehabilitation.
In 2001, La sacra rappresentazione (The holy representation) came out in bookshops. It recounts the handover of the
Fortress of Exilles from
France (
Dauphiné ) to
Savoy , which took place after a night of revelry by the French garrison in 1708. In the same year, the author was simultaneously working on an autobiographical novel that occupied her for several years and was published in 2002 under the title Andante con tenerezza .
In 2009 she published the novel Gli occhiali di Cavour , followed by Due storie d'amore in 2011, free interpretations of the story of two famous couples,
Kriemhild and
Siegfried ,
Tristan and Iseult .
Bibliography
Novels
I dodici abati di Challant (1981; English translation:
The Twelve Abbots of Challant , 2003)
Il fantasma di Mozart (1986)
Il miracolo di santa Odilia (1989; English translation:
The Miracle of Saint Odilia , 2003)
Amadé (1990)
La casa del tempo (1993)
Gli occhi dell'imperatore (1994)
Raskolnikov (1996)
I tre cavalieri del Graal (1996)
Il principe scalzo (1999)
La musica dell'isola (2000)
Attentato alla Sindone (2000)
La sacra rappresentazione ovvero Come il forte di Exilles fu conquistato ai francesi (2001)
Biglietto d'amore (2002)
I colori del cuore (2005)
Un misurato esercizio della cattiveria (2005)
Il ragazzo dagli occhi neri (2007)
Natale sotto la Mole (2008)
Due storie d'amore (2011)
Un peccatore innocente (2013)
Translation of Classics of Austrian and German Literature
(in Italian) Nibelungenlied , Turin: Einaudi, 1972
(in Italian)
Gottfried von Strassburg , Tristan , Turin: Einaudi, 1978
(in Italian)
Heimito von Doderer , I demoni. Dalla cronaca del caposezione Geyrenhoff , Turin: Einaudi, 1979
(in Italian)
Hartmann von Aue , Gregorio and Il povero Enrico , Turin: Einaudi, 1989
(in Italian)
Konrad Bayer , The Head of Vitus Bering , Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1993
Honours
National honours
See also
References
Sources
Anderson, Helen Victoria (2010), Historical and detective fiction in Italy 1950-2006 : Calvino, Malerba and Mancinelli , D. Phil.
University of Oxford
Buzzoni, Marina (2018),
Gli occhi di Laura , I libri di Ca' Foscari, vol. 7,
Ca' Foscari University of Venice ,
doi :
10.30687/978-88-6969-262-8/023 ,
ISBN
978-88-6969-263-5 ,
S2CID
188866924
Buzzoni, Marina (2018),
"Gli occhi di Laura", in Le lingue occidentali nei 150 anni di storia di Ca’ Foscari (PDF) , I libri di Ca' Foscari, vol. 7,
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Burgio, Eugenio (2019),
"L’ultima apparizione di Gregorio, peccatore e santo". Laura Mancinelli, Un peccatore innocente in Un viaggio realmente avvenuto (PDF) , Italianistica. Nuova serie, vol. 10,
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
External links
Awards received by Laura Mancinelli
Special Jury Prize:
Denise McSmith (1975) •
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) •
Yury Trifonov (1978) •
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) •
Pietro Consagra (1980) •
Ignazio Buttitta ,
Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) •
Leonardo Sciascia (1985) •
Wang Meng (1987) •
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988) •
Peter Carey ,
José Donoso ,
Northrop Frye ,
Jorge Semprún ,
Wole Soyinka ,
Lu Tongliu (1990) •
Fernanda Pivano (1992) •
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) •
Dong Baoucum ,
Fan Boaci ,
Wang Huanbao ,
Shi Peide ,
Chen Yuanbin (1995) •
Xu Huainzhong ,
Xiao Xue ,
Yu Yougqnan ,
Qin Weinjung (1996) •
Khushwant Singh (1997) •
Javier Marías (1998) •
Francesco Burdin (2001) •
Luciano Erba (2002) •
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) •
Marina Rullo (2006) •
Andrea Ceccherini (2007) •
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) •
Francesco Forgione (2010)
First work:
Valerio Magrelli (1980) •
Ferruccio Benzoni , Stefano Simoncelli,
Walter Valeri ,
Laura Mancinelli (1981) •
Jolanda Insana (1982) •
Daniele Del Giudice (1983) •
Aldo Busi (1984) •
Elisabetta Rasy ,
Dario Villa (1985) •
Marco Lodoli ,
Angelo Mainardi (1986) •
Marco Ceriani ,
Giovanni Giudice (1987) •
Edoardo Albinati ,
Silvana La Spina (1988) •
Andrea Canobbio ,
Romana Petri (1990) •
Anna Cascella (1991) •
Marco Caporali ,
Nelida Milani (1992) •
Silvana Grasso ,
Giulio Mozzi (1993) •
Ernesto Franco (1994) •
Roberto Deidier (1995) •
Giuseppe Quatriglio ,
Tiziano Scarpa (1996) •
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) •
Alba Donati (1998) •
Paolo Febbraro (1999) •
Evelina Santangelo (2000) •
Giuseppe Lupo (2001) •
Giovanni Bergamini ,
Simona Corso (2003) •
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) •
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) •
Francesco Fontana (2006) •
Paolo Fallai (2007) •
Luca Giachi (2008) •
Carlo Carabba (2009) •
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Italian Author:
Alberto Moravia (1982) •
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) •
Italo Calvino (1984) •
Mario Luzi (1985) •
Paolo Volponi (1986) •
Luigi Malerba (1987) •
Oreste del Buono (1988) •
Giovanni Macchia (1989) •
Gianni Celati ,
Emilio Villa (1990) •
Andrea Zanzotto (1991) •
Ottiero Ottieri (1992) •
Attilio Bertolucci (1993) •
Luigi Meneghello (1994) •
Fernando Bandini ,
Michele Perriera (1995) •
Nico Orengo (1996) •
Giuseppe Bonaviri ,
Giovanni Raboni (1997) •
Carlo Ginzburg (1998) •
Alessandro Parronchi (1999) •
Elio Bartolini (2000) •
Roberto Alajmo (2001) •
Andrea Camilleri (2002) •
Andrea Carraro , Antonio Franchini,
Giorgio Pressburger (2003) •
Maurizio Bettini ,
Giorgio Montefoschi ,
Nelo Risi (2004) •
pr.
Raffaele Nigro ,
sec.
Maurizio Cucchi ,
ter.
Giuseppe Conte (2005) •
pr.
Paolo Di Stefano ,
sec.
Giulio Angioni (2006) •
pr.
Mario Fortunato ,
sec.
Toni Maraini ,
ter.
Andrea Di Consoli (2007) •
pr.
Andrea Bajani ,
sec.
Antonio Scurati ,
ter.
Flavio Soriga (2008) •
pr.
Mario Desiati ,
sec.
Osvaldo Guerrieri ,
ter.
Gregorio Scalise (2009) •
pr.
Lorenzo Pavolini ,
sec.
Roberto Cazzola ,
ter. (2010) •
pr.
Eugenio Baroncelli ,
sec.
Milo De Angelis ,
ter.
Igiaba Scego (2011) •
pr.
Edoardo Albinati ,
sec.
Paolo Di Paolo ,
ter.
Davide Orecchio (2012) •
pr.
Andrea Canobbio ,
sec.
Valerio Magrelli ,
ter.
Walter Siti (2013) •
pr.
Irene Chias ,
sec.
Giorgio Falco ,
ter.
Francesco Pecoraro (2014) •
pr.
Nicola Lagioia ,
sec.
Letizia Muratori ,
ter.
Marco Missiroli (2015) •
pr.
Marcello Fois ,
sec.
Emanuele Tonon ,
ter.
Romana Petri (2016) •
pr.
Stefano Massini ,
sec.
Alessandro Zaccuri ,
ter.
Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award:
Kim Thúy (2011)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa:
Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello:
Gipi (2014)
International National Academics People Other