Neorealist Authors: Viganò

Renata Viganò has reached the notoriety with L’Agnese va a morire from which the homonym film of Giuliano Montaldo with Ingrid Thulin has been drawn.
Renata Viganò was born in Bologna in 1900 from a bourgeois family. Still young, she published two collections of poetries, Ginestra in fiore (Beltrani, Bologna 1912) and Piccola fiamma (Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan 1915). To help her relatives, she has to interrupt the studies and to work as nurse in the hospitals. In 1933 she published her first novel, Il lume spento (Quaderni di poesia, Milan). During the war she took an active part in the clandestine struggle for the Resistance, and with her child she followed her husband, commander of some Garibaldian formations. Executive of the sanitary service of a working brigade in the Valli di Comacchio, she is recognized partisan with the degree of lieutenant. The experience of the partisan struggle, decisive in her life, is the center of L’Agnese va a morire, that won the Prize Viareggio 1949 and that later was translated in thirteen countries.
Besides she wrote the stories of Arriva la cicogna (Cultura sociale, Rome 1954), the novels Una storia di ragazze (Del Duca, Milan 1962) and Matrimonio in brigata (Vangelista, Milan 1976), and the essay prose works of Mondine (Tipografia Modenese, Modena 1952), Donne della Resistenza (Steb, Bologna 1955), Ho conosciuto Ciro (Tecnografia emiliana, Bologna 1959).
She passed away in Bologna in 1976.
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		RENATA VIGANO' Renata Viganò has reached the notoriety with L’Agnese va a morire from which the homonym film of Giuliano Montaldo with Ingrid Thulin has been drawn. Renata Viganò was born in Bologna in 1900 from a bourgeois family. Still young, she published two collections of poetries, Ginestra in fiore (Beltrani, Bologna 1912) and Piccola fiamma (Alfieri and Lacroix, Milan 1915). To help her relatives, she has to interrupt the studies and to work as nurse in the hospitals. In 1933 she published her first novel, Il lume spento (Quaderni di poesia, Milan). During the war she took an active part in the clandestine struggle for the Resistance, and with her child she followed her husband, commander of some Garibaldian formations. Executive of the sanitary service of a working brigade in the Valli di Comacchio, she is recognized partisan with the degree of lieutenant. The experience of the partisan struggle, decisive in her life, is the center of L’Agnese va a morire, that won the Prize Viareggio 1949 and that later was translated in thirteen countries. Besides she wrote the stories of Arriva la cicogna (Cultura sociale, Rome 1954), the novels Una storia di ragazze (Del Duca, Milan 1962) and Matrimonio in brigata (Vangelista, Milan 1976), and the essay prose works of Mondine (Tipografia Modenese, Modena 1952), Donne della Resistenza (Steb, Bologna 1955), Ho conosciuto Ciro (Tecnografia emiliana, Bologna 1959). She passed away in Bologna in 1976. .