Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was
A Piercing Cry, along with Artemisia, is a novel of female development. The question "who am I?," posed in Anna Banti's first novel Itinerario di Paolina, comes full circle in this, her final testimon
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death in 1985. The five tal
