The Epistolary Diary Of Rita Levi Montalcin

Jul 08, 2020 495

BY: DELFINA DUCCI

Very beautiful, fragile, with a gaze identical to the one we are acquainted with thanks to the photographs of the centenarian woman born in Turin in 1909 who died in Rome in 2012.

She was appointed Senator at the age of 102, after having been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. The girl who wrote this terrible yet tender collection of correspondence was a writer similar to her peer Anne Frank, whose state of being in hiding has been immortalized on the pages of her diary.

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SOURCE: https://italicsmag.com

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