Galimberti Schanzer, Alice, (1873-1936)

Title: Galimberti Schanzer, Alice, (1873-1936)
LOC Authority File: Galimberti Schanzer, Alice, (1873-1936)
Full Name: Galimberti, Alice [neé Schanzer] (1873-1936)
Lifespan: 1873-1936
Place of origin: Vienna; Cuneo
Country of origin: Austria
Language: Italian; German; English
Occupation: Translator; Poet
Short biography: Alice Schanzer was born in Vienna, third of four children of Luigi Schanzer, a financier, and Amalia Grunberg, a pianist. One of his brothers was Carlo Schanzer, a politician and jurist. A polyglot, she was fluent in German, Italian, French and English from childhood. She lived in Trieste, Milan and in Rome, where she attended high school and university. At La Sapienza she studied literature. She married Tancredi Galimberti, then Minister of Posts in the Zanardelli government, in 1902. The following year she moved with him to Cuneo, where their sons, Carlo Enrico and Tancredi (Duccio), were born.

In 1901, her first collection of verses Motivi e Canti appeared, praised by Giosuè Carducci. She began her studies of English literature, in particular the poetry of Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, and Spenser. In 1919 she started teaching language and English philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Messina. Her works on the Risorgimento and Giuseppe Mazzini were well-received. She also wrote on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Rossetti family. She contributed numerous essays to Adolfo Venturi's History of Italian art. She also published articles on Piedmontese artists - Bistolfi, Delleani, Grosso, Gaidano, Olivero - whose works she and her husband collected. Her important work on Edmund Spenser was published posthumously in 1938 by her son Duccio.

Galimberti maintained several set of diaries, covering not only her own personal life and moods, but also from the point of view of her children. She kept travel diaries, in particular that of her only trip to England - in 1933 - after a life spent studying English literature, which detailed her itineraries and the people she met - some of whom she had corresponded with for years but whom she hadn't personally known.

The Galimberti family archive in Cuneo, which she was primarily responsible for assembling,preserves documentation of her critical and literary activity and her dense network of relationships with Italian and foreign intellectuals.[3]

Alice Galimberti died on 4 January 1936, after a brief illness. She was member of the Royal Society of London; Wikipedia; Una storia fra la carte. Archivio Galimberti; Archivio fotografico Galimberti
Selected List of Publications: (1899). Il Romanticismo in Italia Perugia Tipografia Umbra.; (1900). Correnti virgiliane nell'alta cultura britannica; (1901). Motivi e canti Bologna. Ditta Nicola Zanichelli Tip. Edit.; (1903). L'Ariosto inglese Roma. Direzione della Nuova Antologia.; (1912). Misticismo mazziniano : mrs. Harriet Hamilton King. Roma Nuova Antologia.; (1921). Dante nel pensiero inglese Firenze Le Monnier.; Dante nel pensiero inglese; (2007), Al limitare del sogno. Poesie e scritti d’arte, a cura di F. Varallo, Torino: Nino Aragno Editore
Link to external sources: Emma Mana, Archivio Galimberti: inventario. Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, 1992; Mana E. (1992b), Archivio Galimberti, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e am-bientali, Roma: Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Archivistici
.Mana E. (1999), I Galimberti tra politica e cultura, in Una famiglia allo specchio 1999, pp. 15-44.
Marenco F. (1999), Alice Galimberti studiosa di letterature comparate, in Una famiglia allo specchio, pp. 147-157
Varallo F. (2005), «Illustre maestro... sua devotissima alunna». Il carteggio tra Adolfo Venturi e Alice Galimberti Schanzer, «Annali di critica d’arte», 1, pp. 167-210.; Itala Cremona Cozzolino, Alice Galimberti Schanzer, in Aspetti Letterari, fasc. IV-V, 1936, pp. 185-194.; Maria Bandini Buti (a cura di), Galimberti Alice, in Poetesse e scrittrici. Vol. 1.: AB-MA, Milano, EBBI, Istituto editoriale italiano Tosi, 1941, p. 285.; Maria Luisa Betri, Scritture di desiderio e di ricordo, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2000.