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The author of two dozen books and thousands of newspaper articles, Margherita Sarfatti is perhaps best known as the one-time lover and longtime companion of Benito Mussolini. She used her privileged relationship with Mussolini to carve out a pivotal role for herself in the official intellectual and artistic life of the Fascist regime. Indeed, as a key figure in the formation of Fascist cultural policy and the construction of the myth of the Duce, she was arguably the most powerful woman in Italy during the 1920s.
Margherita was born in the "Old Ghetto" neighborhood of Venice on April 8, 1880, the fourth child of Emma and Amedeo Grassini, both members of a wealthy and cultivated Venetian Jewish elite. Family friends included Pius X, Guglielmo Marconi, and the novelist Antonio Fogazzaro, while her cousin on her mother's side was Natalia Ginzburg. Although she was baptized a Catholic, Margherita converted to the cause of Marxist
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The twenty-first century has seen the arts in Brazil recognized as a creative and significant part of the master narrative (so to speak) of art history. As the myriad of new studies in various Western languages and the many graduate programs in the United States and Europe have recently proven, interest in Brazilian art has risen to never-before-seen levels in the last two decades, deeply enriching our understanding.
However, this new landscape has not yet reassessed a critical dimension of the modernist experience in Brazil; that is, nationalism and national identity. Nationalism was a significant issue for Brazilian artists and critics throughout the first half of the twentieth century but it continues to be ignored within a historiography of modern Brazilian art that privileges theories of Anthropophagia [Anthropophagy] and post-coloniality associated with the works of Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral. Even when nationalism does emerge in Brazilian art historiography, issues of exile and war are usually overlooked. It is high time that historians of Brazilian art
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Margherita Sarfatti
Italian writer, journalist and art critic
Margherita Sarfatti | |
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| Born | Margherita Grassini (1880-04-08)8 April 1880 Venice, Kingdom of Italy[1] |
| Died | 30 October 1961(1961-10-30) (aged 81) Cavallasca, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, art critic |
| Known for | Being the mistress of Benito Mussolini |
| Notable work | The Life of Benito Mussolini (1925) |
| Political party | National Fascist Party |
| Spouse | Cesare Sarfatti (m. 1898; died 1924) |
| Children | 3 |
Margherita Sarfatti (Italian pronunciation:[marɡeˈriːtasarˈfatti]; née Grassini; 8 April 1880 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, and prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party. She was Benito Mussolini's biographer as well as one of his mistresses.
Biography
Margherita Grassini was born in Venice to a Jewish family, the daughter of Amedeo Grassini and Emma Levi (whose cousin Gius
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