Artemisia

novel by Banti

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In Anna Banti
…most noted works, the novel Artemisia (Eng. trans. Artemisia), based on the life of 16th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who was among the first women artists to “maintain the right to spiritual parity between the sexes.” Banti’s short-story collection Le donne muoiono (1951; “The Women Die”) was also noted; her subsequent…
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