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Dora Melegari (27 June 1849 – 31 July 1924) was a
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writer who wrote in both French and Italian.Fonte: R. Fossati, ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'' Three of her early works were written by a ghost writer. In time she was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize.


Life

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, "Dora") Melegari was born in
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, 27 June 1849. Her father was the diplomat Luigi Amedeo Melegari and her mother was Marie Caroline Mandrot. In 1881,
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ghost-wrote the first of three novels for Melegari. Melegari then wrote her own novels, Her ghost writer eventually published books under his own name. In 1887, she started writing for the ''Internationale Revue'' using the nom de plume of Thomas Emery. She wrote literary reviews and in time took a management role with the magazine. In 1900 she published her most well known work in Paris. This was later translated into Italian as ''Il sonno delle anime'' and published in Milan in 1903. Melegari discussed the nature of friendship between women. She criticised women and particularly those of the south for ignoring its benefits. She proposed that this might be because they consider anything that is not love to have little value. Melegari was twice nominated for the
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in 1914 and 1923.Dora Melegari
NobelPrize.org, Retrieved 12 June 2017
She died in Rome 31 July 1924.


Works

*''Dans la vieille rue'', Ollendorff, Paris, 1880 (ghost written) *''Expiation'', Levy, Paris, 1881 *''Les incertitudes de Livie'', Ollendorff, Paris, 1881 *''Journal intime de Benjamin Costant et lettres a sa famille et ses amis'', Ollendorff, Paris, 1886 *''Marthe de Thiennes'', Levy, Paris, 1886 *''La duchesse Ghislamé'', Paris, 1895 *''Kirie Eleison'', Paris, 1896 *''Il sonno delle anime'', Milan, 1903 *''La Giovane Italia e la Giovane Europa. Carteggio inedito tra Giuseppe Mazzini e Luigi Amedeo Melegari'', 1906 *''Chercheurs de sources'', Fischbacher, Paris, 1908 *''Caterina Spadaro'', Milan, 1908 *''In cerca di sorgenti'', Milan, 1910 *''La città del giglio'', Milan, 1911 *''La piccola damigella Cristine'', Milan, 1913 *''Artefici di pene e artefici di gioie'', Trier, Milan, 1913 *''Ames et visages des femmes'', Paris, 1913 *''Les Victorieuses'', Paris, 1913 *''Amici e nemici'', Milan, 1914 *''Il destarsi delle anime'', Milan, 1915 *''La resurrezione di Lazzaro'', Rome, 1915


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Melegari, Dora 1849 births 1924 deaths Writers from Lausanne Swiss writers in French Swiss writers in Italian 19th-century Swiss writers 20th-century Swiss writers 19th-century Swiss women writers 20th-century Swiss women writers