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- Title
Maria Elena Sini: una voce allo scoppio del primo conflitto mondiale. Con un'introduzione sulla poesia femminile cantata e "a tavolino" nelle fonti.
- Authors
Turtas, Gloria
- Abstract
The case of Maria Elena Sini (Benetutti, 1893-1989) represents an exception within the Sardinian genre of gosos, whose texts are usually anonymous or signed by men. A few months after 24 May 1915, the date that Italy declared war on Austria, and consistent with the positions held by the Catholic world in the delicate debate between interventionists and neutralists, Sini, at just 21 years of age, became the mouthpiece of a desperate appeal in the Sardinian language through the Gosos pro sa Paghe ('Praise for peace'), using the tools available to her from the written and oral tradition. Described as a woman 'enclosed in her modesty' and living a secluded life, she never signed her compositions, which initially circulated anonymously and with great success throughout the island, through the media of printed loose sheets and sung performances. In a tone somewhere between prayer and reproach, addressed to the Lord and the Virgin, Sini gives voice not only to the suffering of the fighters, but also to that of every woman, mother and wife; her thoughts are addressed not only to Sardinia, but to every nation. In 1920, the periodical Cordelia - founded in 1881 by Angelo De Gubernatis - sanctioned, at national level, the attribution of her texts, with an article dedicated to Sini's work authored by the writer Gemina Fernando. Benetutti's poetess is also an important figure in the little-explored context of women's poetry in Sardinia, an introductory framework to which is briefly set out here.
- Subjects
WORLD War I; CATHOLICS; CATHOLIC Church; SARDINIAN language; MASS media; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Chronica Mundi, 2022, Vol 16/17, p158
- ISSN
2239-7515
- Publication type
Article