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Fatalità

by Ada Negri

Introduction by Sofia Bisi Albini

"Fatalità" by Ada Negri is a poetry collection published in 1892. This debut work propelled an unknown schoolteacher from Motta Visconti to national prominence as a poetess in Italy. While containing some love lyrics, the collection primarily establishes Negri as a social poet whose destiny is to be the voice of the people, expressing their struggles and origins. Written in alternating hendecasyllables and seven-syllable lines with rhyming couplets, the work achieved remarkable popularity that astonished even its author, gaining international attention through translations into German, Polish, and Armenian.

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