Margherita Sarfatti

Margherita Sarfatti ( born April 8, 1880 in Venice, † 30 October 1961 Cavallasca ) was an Italian writer, lover of Mussolini and founder of the artist group Novecento.

Life

Margherita Grassini comes from a wealthy Jewish family lawyer. She was educated by private tutors. In his early years covered by socialist ideals, they fled at the age of 18 years from home on the Grand Canal in Venice and married Cesare Sarfatti, a much older lawyer from Padua. After moving the pair to Milan in 1902, she was editor of the socialist newspaper Il Popolo d' Italia. This leading party organ was then led by Benito Mussolini, Sarfatti became his mistress. Sarfattis Milan Salon was in the 1920s, a meeting place for intellectuals and artists in the city.

In 1922 she founded together with the gallery Lino Pesaro and the artists Anselmo Bucci, Leonardo Dudreville, Achille Funi, Gian- Emilio Malerba, Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi and Mario Sironi the " Gruppo del Novecento ", which in 1923 in the gallery Pesaro in Milan presented her work for the first time. The reproach of other artists, Sarfatti was trying to establish with this group own fascist art direction, they met in that they all major painters and sculptors of Italy invited at the next major exhibition in 1926 to participate.

Since 1924, widowed, she gave in 1925 in England a biography of Mussolini, under the title The life of Benito Mussolini out, which appeared the following year in Italy under the title Dux. The book was translated to commercial success and sold in numerous languages. The German edition was first published in 1926 under the title Mussolini. Life story. After autobiographical documents.

As the fascist policy in Ethiopia was at war and the introduction of racial laws was decided Margherita Sarfatti emigrated to Argentina in 1938 and was therefore not involved in the demise of the regime. She has also worked as a journalist in Montevideo.

She returned in 1947 to Italy, where they lived quietly in their country house in Cavallasca in Como, until her death.

More

  • Margherita Sarfatti is a relative of the famous lamp designer Gino Sarfatti.

Works

  • Together with Benito Mussolini: The Life of Benito Mussolini, 1925, reprint 2004 ISBN 1-4179-3962-1.
  • Dux, Mondadori 1926 (German Mussolini. Biography. According autobiographical documents, Leipzig 1926)
  • Storia della pittura moderna, P. Cremonese 1930
  • Casanova contro Don Giovanni, Mondadori 1950
  • Acqua passata, Cappelli 1955
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