Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer.
16 Facts About Goliarda Sapienza
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Goliarda Sapienza is best known for her 1998 novel L'arte della gioia.
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Goliarda Sapienza was later to help draft the Constitution of Italy.
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Giudice and Goliarda Sapienza started a family together.
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Goliarda Sapienza was their second child, and was named for her brother, Goliardo, who died before she was born.
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Goliarda Sapienza had many step-siblings from her parents' previous families who lived together in the same house in Via Pistone, Catania.
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Goliarda Sapienza spent her childhood in a non-conformist feminist anti-fascist and anti-clerical environment, where she was exposed to a mix of different class backgrounds and an active political involvement.
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Goliarda Sapienza taught herself drama, piano and re-enacted films she had seen in the cinema.
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Goliarda Sapienza acted occasionally in the film industry, into which she was encouraged by Alessandro Blasetti.
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Goliarda Sapienza started writing around the time of her mother's death in 1953, first producing poetry.
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Goliarda Sapienza had psychoanalytical therapy at a clinic in Rome and fell in love with her analyst, who responded by terminating the treatment.
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Goliarda Sapienza was assisted in her recovery by writing which she had increasingly focused on from 1958.
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Goliarda Sapienza then dedicated herself entirely to writing which her friend Elsa Morante resented because Sapienza preferred to write rather than come over for lunch.
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Goliarda Sapienza then threw herself into the task of writing what is considered her masterpiece, L'arte della gioia, which took her nine years to complete and drove her to destitution as she withdrew further from society.
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Goliarda Sapienza was unable to find a publisher for it during her lifetime.
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In 1994 Goliarda Sapienza was able to have published in Italian the first of the four parts that made up L'arte della gioia as part of the Millelirepiu series overseen by Marcello Baraghini.