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Sibilla Aleramo
1876–1960
A bold Italian voice who turned personal experience into groundbreaking literature, she became one of the most recognizable feminist writers of early 20th-century Italy. Best known for her autobiographical novel Una donna, she wrote with unusual frankness about a woman’s search for freedom and selfhood.
5 Audiobooks
Il passaggio: Romanzo
by Sibilla Aleramo
Trasfigurazione: Novella
by Sibilla Aleramo
Momenti: Liriche
by Sibilla Aleramo
Le passage, suivi de Transfiguration (Nouvelle)
by Sibilla Aleramo
Una Donna
by Sibilla Aleramo
About the author
Born Marta Felicina Faccio in 1876, she published under the name Sibilla Aleramo and built a reputation as an Italian writer, poet, and journalist. She is most widely remembered for Una donna (A Woman), an autobiographical novel that brought wide attention to the condition of women in Italy at the turn of the 20th century.
Her work grew out of a difficult early life and a strong commitment to women’s emancipation. Over the years she became closely associated with feminist thought and with literary circles in Italy, writing in a way that joined intimate personal experience with larger social questions.
Aleramo continued to write for decades and remained an important cultural figure until her death in Rome in 1960. Today she is often read as a pioneering modern voice whose life and work helped open new space for women’s writing in Italian literature.