Milena Milani

She was born in Savona in 1917; she lived in front of the railway station on Letimbro; her father, Tullio Milani, was an agronomist, and was born in Livorno. Her mother, Anna Antonione, was native to Dogliani.[1] She repeatedly recalled that she had been baptized by Milena because, if she was a male, she would call it Lenin. Savona la Milani completed her studies at the Istituto magistrale.

She then attended the La Sapienza University of Rome. In 1941, she was a poet for Littoriali di Sanremo. She was a lively presence in the fascist youth newspaper, Fascist Rome, where she collaborated on war art and German university female youth.[2] Her connection with Benito Mussolini and fascism, changed when she began to frequent in Rome with the group of intellectuals who met in the Caffè Aragno. Some students led by Giuseppe Ungaretti and Corrado Alvaro participated in the occupation of a fascist daily in via del Tritone. In 1942 she met in Rome with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who appointed her as "General Commander of All Futurist Women of Italy".[3]

In 1943, she was forced to leave Rome by the SS, and she settled in Venice. She met with the collector and art dealer Carlo Cardazzo, who became her companion until 1963,[4] with the disagreement of his family.[5] She was a sports journalist, and followed the Giro d'Italia in the magazine Il Campione.

In the 1960s his novel, The girl named Giulio, published by the Longanesi house, became a literary cause celebre. Appeared in 1964, the book is at the heart of controversy and is soon seized, while both the author and writer Mario Monti, director of Longanesi, were tried and sentenced to six months imprisonment for obscene publication, on 22 March 1966. Numerous Italian intellectuals, starting with Giuseppe Ungaretti, acted on that occasion alongside Milani, which was subsequently dismissed in 1967, with the rationale that "erotic ideas fit harmoniously into the narrative fabric and respond to the descriptive requirements that the theme of condemned woman to solitude suggested and which were happily realized in the poetic unity of the work".[6] She was defended by lawyer Salvatore La Villa. The book was translated into many languages and widely sold,[7] especially in France, the United States and England,[8] the book reached the fifteenth edition and was taken over by the same name as The Girl named Giulio of 1970. In 1966, it appeared in movie Sorry, you are in favor or against? by Alberto Sordi.

In the seventies he lived in Via Amilcare Ponchielli, at Albissola Marina , in the well-known condominium called "Casa di vetro". At that time he attended, in Milan, via Ercole Oldofredi, where he was the headquarters of Rusconi Libri,[9] publishing his literary works. One used exploit was "Milena Milani in Milan". In 1983, she published Woman and others (edited by Longanesi), a love story dedicated to a man who does not return, and the protagonist searches through different cities and landscapes.

She fought to save from the demolition the nineteenth railway station "Letimbro". She remembered the wood-burning stove of the waiting room, with the large mirror, where he reflected her girl's face.[10] In addition to literature, Milena Milani has also been actively involved in painting, working from 1946 to 1963 with Carlo Cardazzo at the Naviglio Gallery in Milan; has also been part of the artistic work since its foundation, with Lucio Fontana, and participated with works and writings on group exhibitions of this movement.

Her first solo exhibition took place in 1965 at the Argentario Gallery in Trento and, in the same year, at the Circolo degli Artisti di Albissola Mare. In 1969, she exhibited at the Galleria Regis of Finale Ligure; in 1969 at the Galleria Il Punto di Torino and the Galleria del Centro di Vercelli; in 1970 by "Chez Venier" in Cortina d'Ampezzo, at Galleria Il Traghetto 2 in Venice and at the Galleria Fontana di Savona; in 1971 at Galleria Il Salotto in Genoa and at the Galleria Zanini in Rome; in 1972 at the Farsetti Art Gallery in Cortina d'Ampezzo, at the "Bon à tirer" gallery in Milan, at the Christian Stein Gallery in Turin, at the Cavour Art Gallery in Milan, at the Galleria dei Carbini in Varazze, at the Galleria de "Il Giorno" in Milan and at the Studio d'Arte Moderna SM 13 in Rome; in 1973 at the Galleria Il Salotto di Como .

She had many partners, including Alberto Moravia, who then married Elsa Morante. At the Via dell'Oratorio, in 1998, a work by Milani was set up in Albissola Marina, the Memory Tree, with many wooden leaves attached to each of which the name of a local disappeared artist [12] . From 9 to 24 February 2011, at the House of Literature in Rome, an important exhibition dedicated to her including original editions of her books.[11]

She spent the last few years at Hotel Garden in Viale Faraggiana, at Albissola Marina: from the top of the roof on the roof of the hotel, the Milani could see the banks of the Sansobbia stream, on which he had the first artistic and loving experiences in 1930.

She died in the "San Paolo" Hospital, the same one she was born in.[12][13]

• A girl called Jules. Translator Graham Snell. London: Hutchinson 1966, OCLC 25452106
• The story of Anna Drei translator Graham Snell, London: Arrow Books, 1970. ISBN 9780090036103, OCLC 877208027

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