"Different from any other , irreplaceable , only of myself and Mrs."
Sibilla
This Little Thing Called Love
Interview with Bruno Conti
(Dale Zaccaria)
Bruno Conti has edited the correspondence published by Feltrinelli "A Journey Called Love" Letters 1916-1918. He has taught and supervised the Stock Sibilla Archives Luchino Visconti at the Foundation Gramsci di Roma Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini. He has edited books about the life and works of Sibilla .*
Sibilla's figure appears to be poised between a personality and a woman dannunziana forerunner of feminism, for choices, courage, and ways of relating time unthinkable for a woman. Which of these two aspects of the most prevalent 'in your opinion?
"Sybil is a woman who lives his entire life to the end in a high voltage between strength and fragility, fragile and strong at the same time, all this certainly made more extreme by his high courage, Sybil is a very bold for its time, knowing that if she left her husband (1) did not have custody of her son, conscious as that without the consent of her husband did not receive the money given to you as an inheritance from his uncle. All these things are very clear in her. Despite all this leaves her husband. The Aleramo then, can be considered a feminist-before its time, pointing to the liberation of women more than its emancipazione.Mentre dannunziana his personality is in its taste. Sybil eg put petals on the bed was not a woman how to say certain baseness even sexual, as in Placido's film, the Aleramo would never go into a tavern or acts of love would live in places like the car of a train. "
Many feminists believe Sibilla a victim of men. One who lives only on the basis of them. From 'On the other hand, the friend and writer Matilde evening says Sibyl , feel, Try not to fall in love more: you suffer too when love. "Victim" so more of his own love ?
"In fact, all his relations live longer in operation a requirement that d 'meetings called for by destiny or free manner. Sibyl can not be alone. She needs a man constantly. Besides, most of the men with whom he has established relationships were nearly all much younger than her. With Matacotta Franco (2) is passed forty years apart. A decade-long history with all its shadows, a story that even with a node, say, sado-masochista.L 'Aleramo tended to bond. Every love like it forever. "
The relationship with Dino Campana seems to be a constant drain and a continuous series.
"To understand the movement of Sibilla just follow Dino Campana. Where he went she followed him accordingly. Campana was an unpredictable man. Capable of anything at the last minute. A great walker among others. She could walk for days. Without stopping. Their relationship then was a violent and passionate. Were often both hands, a fight, as evidenced by the Cecchi family stories. Verbally and physically abuse the bell, "a martyr" in fact could not be continued for a long time, so that it will truncate the Aleramo to this story, perhaps, in my opinion, it could also last longer. Then in the end their love affair is consumed in a few months of meetings, beyond the letters include a longer period ranging from 1916 to 1918. "
The ratio of Dino Campana and Dannunzio as is to be considered. Estimation or not? In a passage of the letters is addressed to Sybil Bell, referring to the poet's River, almost like a landmark.
"Dino Campana Dannunzio did not like, even if they have cleverly called" the bard gramophone. " But did not love her. Somehow, however, he was the reference point of the time, and almost all the writers and scholars, however, you had to compare. "
In the reconstruction of the film "A Trip called love "by Michele Placido, in film, it appears that the mental suffering of Bell, which shall be worsening with physical violence inflicted by Sibilla still a child (the rapist later become her husband) is something that you think has contributed to disturb the already fragile stability of the Poet?
"More than the violence, Bell was a very jealous of the Sibyl. Jealous and obsessive. Sybil's life surrounded by many lovers and relations has certainly not brought stability to the poet, on the contrary, a woman as she tended to destabilize it further. This certainly has come to disturb and make it even more fragile her mental state Physical and precarious way. As for the film I think there have been major insights particularly in the flashbacks, in dell'Aleramo relationship with his family, his father or with regard to mental illness and attempted suicide of the mother. "
Campana's poetry is closely linked to natural elements, sources, skies, chimeras.
"In Bell lives the legend of the journey. All his life as his work is crossed by continuous movements. His verses which appear to be disconnected in reality have a very clear logic. It 'a great poet. His work proves it even now. E then was a loner. "
The literary environment at that time understood the greatness of poetry here from Bell's asti and the evil around the poet, as well as the fact that the first draft of the Orphic Songs, The longest day was done away with.
"I do not believe in bad faith or Soft Papini, I think the fact is even more serious or sad. Negligence. If they had deliberately done away with the manuscript, would have recognized in some way the poetic grandeur of Bell, one of its superiority. Instead, I believe that there has been a sort of gross. Also because Bell was a man who constantly knocked on doors, who was interested the publication of his manuscript so here a little 'obsessive. I believe the version of the Soft family, and that the work is like saying "Lost," "untreated" and found it after so many years in a move. "
(1) Rina Pierangeli Faccio Ulderico married, an employee of his father, after having suffered violence, the engagement and subsequent marriage will be accelerated also by rumors that were spreading in the country. Sibilla was fifteen years old when the insistent courtship of Ulderico escalate into violence as told by the writer: " one morning I was surprised by a hug unusual, brutal, two shaking hands rummaging in my clothes, my body thrown back almost to sleep through a stool, while instinctively struggling. I choked and gave a groan, which was to end in screaming, when the man presses his mouth, I pushed away " in Sibilla and his time. Life told and illustrated by Bruno Conti and Alba Morino, Feltrinelli edition out of print.
(2) On October 23, 1935 Sibilla, who is now living in his difficult relationship with Salvatore Quasimodo, receives a letter from Fermo Franco Matacotta and a photo with a dedication to "Sybil Aleramo first poet of Italy. "The young man had not yet vent'enne, is about to go to Rome to begin his university studies and wants to visit her. The meeting will take place in February 1936 after a short convalescence dell'Aleramo Capri immediately following surgical intervention. The March 7 report and begin to live together in the attic (via Margutta). The relationship lasted, though with tears, ten years, will be noted dall'Aleramo daily in his diary, along with the wars that followed and meetings with political figures and scholars of Roman life of those years (by Cecchi in Zavattini, Morante , Saba, Moravia, Einaudi, Alicia, etc. ..). Even Matacotta rebuild after years in a manuscript remained unpublished, his affair with Sybil, which will call Bella . In Sibilla and his time (ditto above) .
References *
Sibilla and his time, life told and illustrated by Bruno Conti and Alba Morino, Feltrinelli, 1981, edition is currently out of print.
Bruno Conti, Women and Feminism Sibilla Editori Riuniti, 1978.
Foreword by Bruno Conti at Sibilla Years of A Woman, 1888-1902, by Pier Luigi Cavalieri, ed.Cattedrale, 2009. Antes
Monika, I love therefore I am, Sibilla pioneer of feminism in Italy, Mauro Pagliai publisher (book on Bruno Conti).
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