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ASSOCIAZIONE AMICI DI LALLA ROMANO
Writer | Brera – Garibaldi | From the 1960s to the end of the millennium
Lalla Romano was born in 1906 at Demonte (Cuneo). After taking a degree in Letters at the University of Turin, she began to study painting with Felice Casorati. For twenty years she was both a painter and a writer, as well as a teacher. Encouraged by Montale, she made her debut in 1941 with the poems of Fiore. In 1947 she moved to Milan, and stopped painting. In 1951, for Einaudi, she published Le metamorfosi, the first of many narrative works, including: Maria, La penombra che abbiamo attraversato, Le parole tra noi leggere (Premio Strega 1969), Una giovinezza inventata, Nei mari estremi… Though nearly blind, she continued to write until she died (in Milan, 2001).
As if just one life was not enough for you. And in fact you lived two lives, Lalla. Both of them lavish. You were Occitan, from Demonte. Your father was a municipal geometer with the soul of an artist. He was a skilled painter and photographer. Your maternal uncle was Giuseppe Peano, the great mathematical logician. Life, since childhood, provided you with all the people who would always know how to guide your passions, over the years. But it is not enough to meet the right people. You also had a talent for recognizing them. Lionello Venturi was your mentor of taste in the university years, in Turin. He sent you to Felice Casorati, master of art. You became an…
Lalla Romano
Lalla Romano as a child
Lalla Romano in the 1940s
Lalla Romano with her students in the Arconati school in Milan, late 1940s
Lalla Romano in the 1950s
Lalla Romano, Self-Portrait with Veil, 1938
Lalla Romano, Self-Portrait – Severe , 1940
Lalla Romano at an opening night at Teatro alla Scala, with Eugenio Montale, late 1970s
Lalla Romano at an opening night at Teatro alla Scala with Mario Soldati, 1980s
Detail of the home of Lalla Romano – bookcase in the home of Lalla Romano
Detail of the home of Lalla Romano – bookcase in the home of Lalla Romano
Lalla Romano [photograph by Antonio Ria]
Lalla Romano with Giulio Einaudi in 1996
Lalla Romano with Mario Soldati, mid-1990s
Lalla Romano and Mario Soldati in the 1990s
Lalla Romano with Mario Rigoni Stern in the 1990s
Lalla Romano in her home in Milan
[photo by Antonio Ria]
Lalla Romano in her home in Milan
[photo by Antonio Ria]
Lalla Romano with Grazia Cherchi, Milan 1990 [photo by Vincenzo Cottinelli]
Lalla Romano in a school in Milan
Lalla Romano in a school in Milan
Lalla Romano
[photo by Antonio Ria]
Lalla Romano in her home in Milan
[photo by Antonio Ria]
Lalla Romano in her home in Milan
[photo by Antonio Ria]
Garden named for Lalla Romano by the City of Milan, in front of her home at Via Brera 17
The Lalla Romano Room in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
The Lalla Romano Room in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Roberto Romano and Giuseppina Peano, the parents of Lalla Romano
[timer photograph by Roberto Romano]
Roberto Romano and Giuseppina Peano, with their daughter Lalla Romano and their dog Murò
[timer photograph by Roberto Romano]