Nella Nobili wrote in French and Italian, notably about factory work and lesbian love.
11 Facts About Nella Nobili
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Nella Nobili met Giorgio Morandi, to whom she dedicated the poem Landscape in 1926.
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Nella Nobili met the painter Aldo Borgonzoni : she assiduously frequented his studio in via Saragozza.
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Nella Nobili met the director of "Giornale della Sera" Giuseppe Galasso.
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Nella Nobili frequented the house of Renata Vigano and Antonio Meluschi in Via Mascarella, where intellectuals such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sibilla Aleramo, former partisans and students met.
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Nella Nobili published collections of poems and books, including Les femmes et l'amour homosexuel, with her co-author, Edith Zha, in 1979, which brought together testimonies, reflections and documentation on female homosexual love.
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Nella Nobili published in magazines such as Sorcieres and corresponded with figures such as Giorgio Morandi, Michel Ragon, Bernard Noel, Claire Etcherelli and Henri Thomas.
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Nella Nobili committed suicide at the age of 59, in 1985, in Cachan.
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Nella Nobili left a legacy of poems to be read, for they are a denunciation, a beacon of light on the condition of women and workers in the 1940s, a cry against stigmatising society, factories that are prisons and prejudices about love.
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Nella Nobili's works have been partly translated by Marie-Jose Tramuta, professor at the University of Caen Normandy.
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Nella Nobili's archives are kept by the Institut memoires de l'edition contemporaine.