Pozzi, Antonia (1912–1938)
Pozzi, Antonia (1912–1938)
Italian poet. Born 1912 in Milan, Italy; committed suicide at 26 in 1938; dau. of Lina Cavagna Sangiuliani and Roberto Pozzi (lawyer); attended University of Milan.
Work praised by Elsa Morante, published Parole (1939) and Flaubert: la formazione letteraria (1940); upset with the winds of war beginning to swirl around her, took her life.
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