Barbara Alberti (born April 11, 1943) is an Italian writer, reporter and media personality.

Early life

Alberti was born in

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and grew up in a poor family; she was given a

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. When she was 15, her family moved to Rome. Alberti has said that, although she hated the city at first sight, she eventually warmed to it. She attended Rome University and took a degree in philosophy.

Work

She aims to fight the traditional feminine image. Her works include the picaresque evil ''Memorie Malvagie'' (1976) to the meditative ''Vangelo secondo Maria'' (1979), a stronger work tinged with humor and provocation such as ''Il signore è servito'' (1983), ''Povera bambina'' (1988), ''Parliamo d'amore'' (1989), ''Delirio e

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'' from

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, both from 1991, and ''Il promesso sposo'' (1994), a profile dedicated to the art critic

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and presented in the guise of a "fake" autobiography. A humorous production is ''La donna è un animale stravagante davvero: ottanta ritratti ingiusti e capricciosi'' (1998), in which Alberti imaginged

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beside some female figures of her generation. Her protagonists take on the same challenge: to find the happiness. Creatures in revolt: injudicious old, children of hell, hell, saints. She has been passionate about the fantastic biographies of existing characters, living and dead. In 2003, Alberti published ''Gelosa di Majakovsky'', a biography of the poet (for which, in the same year, she was awarded the Alghero Woman Prize), and ''The Prince's Steering Wheel'', in which she told the life of

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. In 2006 she authored a book of short stories about husbands returning home. She is the author of many screenplays, including '' Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli'' (1973), ''Il portiere di notte'' (1974) and ''Melissa P.'' (2005), as well as plays ''Ecce Homo''. Since 2009, she has written a weekly column, "La posta di Barbara Alberti" in ''

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''. Alberti worked as commentator/pundit on television talk shows, including ''Pomeriggio 5'', ''Italia sul 2'' and ''La guardiana del faro.''

Personal life

Alberti married producer and screenwriter Amedeo Pagani (three times). They have two children, Gloria Samuela (1966) and Malcom (1975). They first married in London to please her father, then in the Abbey of Casamari in Ciociaria to please Pagani's mother as she did not know about the London event, and for a third and last time "in the house of Ananias grandfather, my father's father, with lots of dancing on the threshing floor." Pagani left Alberti in the 1980s for Elisabetta Billi but returned to her fifteen years later because of the children. They never officially divorced and Alberti refers to him as "then-husband, now a dear relative". She does not believe in God, although she thinks there's a need of spirituality in the contemporary world.

Literary works

*''Riprendetevi la faccia'',

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(2010) *''Il ritorno dei mariti'',

(2006) *''Il Principe Volante'', Playground (2004) *''Gelosa di Majakovskij'', (1994) *''Il promesso sposo'' (a biography of

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(1994) *''Vocabolario d'amore'', Rizzoli (1994) *''La donna è un animale stravagante davvero'', Frontiera Edizioni (1994) *''

da Siena'' (a biography of

(1991) *''Parliamo d'amore'',

(1989) *''Dispetti divini'', (1989) *''Povera bambina'',

(1987) *''Tahiti Bill'',

(1985) *''Buonanotte Angelo'',

(1985) *''Scometto di sì'',

(1984) *''Fulmini'', Spirali, (1984) *''Il signore è servito'',

(1983) *''Sbrigati mama'',

(1983) *''Donna di piacere'',

(1980) *''Vangelo secondo Maria'',

(1978) *''Delirio'',

(1977) *''Memorie malvage'', (1976)

Filmography

As screenwriter

Acting roles

Television appearances

Notes

External links

Page to be conductor of Radio24
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