![]() ![]() With the exception of a stay in Rome in the 1880s, Serao spent most of her life in the southern Italian metropolis of Naples. She also published almost 40 volumes of fiction, including 30 novels and 100 short stories. Prolific both as a journalist and a fiction writer, she spent almost 50 years in newspaper work, founding four newspapers. Matilde Serao, a journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, began her career in the newly founded Italian state of the late 19th century and continued her work into the mid-1920s. (fiction) Cuore infermo (The Sick Heart, 1881), Fantasia (Fantasy, 1882), La conquista di Roma (The Conquest of Rome, 1885), Vita e avventure di Riccardo Joanna (The Life and Adventures of Riccardo Joanna, 1887), Il paese di Cuccagna (The Land of Cockaigne, 1891), Suor Giovanna della Croce (Sister Joan of the Holy Cross, 1901), Il delitto di via Chiatamone (The Crime of Via Chiatamone, 1908), La mano tagliata (The Severed Hand, 1912), Ella non rispose (Souls Divided, 1914), Mors tua (The Harvest, 1926) (nonfiction) Il ventre di Napoli (The Belly of Naples, 1884). Returned to Italy from Greece with her mother (1860) worked at state telegraph agency (1874–77) began work as journalist (1876) published first short stories (1878) began friendship with Eleonora Duse (1879) published first novel and moved to Rome to work as a journalist (1881) became editor of Roman newspaper (1882) founded Corriere di Roma with Scarfoglio (1885) returned to Naples (1887) founded literary weekly review, La Settimana (1902) founded her own newspaper, Il Giorno (1904) protested granting of women's suffrage in local Italian elections (1925) lost Nobel Prize in literature to Grazia Deledda (1926) visited by Benito Mussolini (1927). Born on February 26, 1856, in Patras, Greece died of a heart attack on July 25, 1927, in Naples, Italy daughter of Francesco Saverio Serao (an exiled Neapolitan journalist) and Paolina Bonelly Serao (a Greek noblewoman) attended Scuola normale (Normal School) in Naples, 1870–73 married Edoardo Scarfoglio, in February 1885 (separated 1902) children: (first marriage) four sons (with Giuseppe Natale, a Neapolitan lawyer) daughter Eleonora (b. ![]() Name variations: (pseudonyms) Chiquita, Paolo Spada, and Gibus. He started to sign his graffittis under the name SAMO (that standed for SAMe Old shit).Italian journalist and fiction writer who commented extensively on the role of women in the newly unified Italian state. We started to know about him around 1976. When he turned 8 years old he could speak 3 languages: French, Spanish and English. ![]() When he turned 4 years old he knew how to write and read. He could have decided to stand behind his latin roots or his mixed roots however his vision was clear. He wanted to become “the first Black artist”. The few people who speak French in Haiti are the elite and well to do Haitians, mainly found in the urban centers.īasquiat’s decision: Acknowledging his Black rootsīasquiat knew since the beginning what he wanted. Despite French being the administrative language in Haiti, only 5 percent of Haitians are fluent in the language. According to the World Atlas site only a small percent of the population does.įrench is the standard written language in Haiti. But it wouldn’t have been a surprise if he was called something in the lines of Juan Miguel or John Michael.Īn interesting fact that we found a long the way is that not all the people from Haiti speak French fluently. Haiti is a francophone country so it was expected that Basquiat’s first names would be linked to his father’s origins. After that, his parents decided to keep french origin names for the children. Why Jean Michel Basquiat and not Jean Micheal Basquiat or Juan Miguel Basquiat?īasquiat’s older brother was named Max but he passed away shortly before Jean Michel was born. His father was Gérard Basquiat from Haiti and his mother was Matilde Andrades from Puerto Rico. Jean Michel had strong latin american and caribbean roots. He was a Brooklyn artist but his french name originated from his fahter’s side. 31 July Are you a street art lover? Or just an art enthusiast? We are sure that you don’t want to go around pronouncing Jean Michel Basquiat’s name the wrong way. ![]()
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