Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti

Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti (21 August 1841 – 3 February 1903)[1] was an Italian poet and scholar.[2] Her poetry dealt with contemporary issues, and she became the first woman in Italy to vote.

Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti

Bonacci Brunamonti published her first poetry aged 14.[3] Her motto was innovare serbando ("innovation through conservation").[4] Bonacci Brunamonti's poetry explored conflicts, such as the 1859 Perugia uprising, the Battle of Magenta and the Battle of Solferino.[2] As a devout Catholic, she dedicated some of her works to Pope Pius IX.[2] Her poetry used classical metre and verse structures.[4] Bonacci Brunamonti was forced to stop writing following a stroke in 1897.[5]

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.[6][5]

Her father was Gratiliano Bonacci (1802–1871), a lawyer and professor of rhetoric.[7][6] Born Maria Alinda Bonacci,[6] she married Pietro Brunamonti in 1868.[2][5] Bonacci Brunamonti was born in and died in Perugia, and she lived there for much of her life,[2] also frequently visiting her father's birthplace of Recanati.[7] Bonacci Brunamonti taught at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2] She was a watercolor painter of flowers and plants.[2]

References
  1. "Maria Alinda Bonacci-Brunamonti (1841-1903)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  2. Allegrini, Sandro Francesco (5 June 2017). "Doppio errore alle Poste sul nome di una grande donna perugina: a lei è intestata pure una strada". Perugia Today (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  3. Warner, Charles Dudley (2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J). Cosimo, Inc. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-605-20248-8.
  4. Panizza, Letizzia (2000). A History of Women's Writing in Italy. Cambridge University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-521-57813-4.
  5. Marin, Chiara (2013). L'arte delle donne: Per una Kunstliteratur al femminile nell'Italia dell'Ottocento. p. 110. ISBN 978-8-862-92408-5.
  6. "POETESSE / 4 - THE MUSE OF THE RISORGIMENTO". 9colonne (in Italian). Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  7. "Le poesie ritrovate di Alina Bonacci Brunamonti, lac ricerca di Antonella Maggini". Il Cittadino di Recanati (in Italian). 15 March 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2018.

Further reading
  • Antolini, Cornelia (1904). Alinda Brunamonti e Vittoria Colonna: in memoria di Alinda Brunamonti.
  • Croce, Benedetto (1914). La letteratura della nuova Italia, vol. II.
  • Curatolo, C. (1904). Della vita e delle opere di Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti.
  • P. Fasano (1969). Bonacci Brunamonti Maria Alinda, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. XI, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • C. Pigorini Beri (1909). Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti. Reminiscenze, in Nuova Antologia, XLIV (vol. 147, fasc. 907), pp. 473–84.
  • P. Pimpinelli (1989). Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti ovvero Una massaia in Parnaso, Tibergraph, Città di Castello.
  • L.M. Reale, Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti, il dialetto, le tradizioni popolari e la Flora Umbra (con appendice di testi e glossario), in Contributi di Filologia dell'Italia Mediana, voll. XI (1997) and XII (1998), pp. 195–236 e 127-167.
  • C. Peducci (2012). Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti : i discorsi d'arte : un esempio del gusto fin de siècle.
  • F. Ciacci, edited by G. D'Elia (2015). L'archivio di Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti. Inventario , Edizioni della Soprintendenza archivistica dell'Umbria e delle Marche.
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