Paola Masino

Louise Rozier (University of Arkansas)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 20 May 1908
Died 27 Jul 1989

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Poet

Resources

Masino's Works

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Paola Masino was born in Pisa, Italy on May 20, 1908, to Enrico Alfredo Masino, a functionary at the Ministry of Agriculture, and Luisa Sforza of Montignoso, an aristocrat. Under the guidance of her beloved father, she read the Bible, Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, and all the major nineteenth-century novelists (Flaubert, Stendhal, Dostoevskij, Dickens, and others). Masino did not finish high school, but her literary ambitions were apparent early on when, at the age of sixteen, she asked Luigi Pirandello to stage her play

Le tre Marie.

She wrote about this encounter with the famous playwright in her diary, stating that he read the play and was encouraging (

Paola Masino. Io Massimo e gli altri. Autobiografia di una figlia del secolo

). In March 1927, she met and fell in love…

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Citation: Rozier, Louise. "Paola Masino". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 July 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13064, accessed 26 November 2024.]