Variazioni belliche, by Amelia Rosselli: Archive of History and Culture

Abstract

This article aims to introduce the Brazilian reading public to the poetic work of Amelia Rosselli, a complex and thought-provoking figure in Italian women’s poetry produced in the twentieth century, thus contributing to the wider dissemination and increased circulation of Italian women poets in Brazil. According to critic Alfonso Berardinelli, Amelia Rosselli is one of the most significant representatives of lyric poetry from the second half of the twentieth century in Italy (Berardinelli, 2007, p. 189). But despite the importance, notoriety, and representativeness of Rosselli’s poetry, it remains almost unpublished in Brazil, with only a few sparse poems translated and published in poetry blogs and magazines, some of which have national circulation. It is our intention, therefore, to present a critical profile of the author and comment on her poetic writing situated between different languages and cultures, based on the reading and analysis of the volume Variazioni belliche, especially the poems written and published in the early 1960s, seeking new perspectives that will help promote a greater circulation of Rosselli’s work in the country, providing visibility to Italian women’s writing in general.