Anna Maria Ortese

Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory.

Gian Maria Annovi is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California.Ghezzo Flora :

Flora Ghezzo teaches Italian literature at La Scuola D’Italia in New York City.

‘For both its depth and breadth, Annovi’s book is a magnificent achievement.’

S. Botterill:

‘This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese’s work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves…. Highly recommended.’

Luca Somigli, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto:

“Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies is an excellent collection of essays that makes a major contribution to the study of an author whose importance in modern Italian literature is increasingly being recognized.”

Daniela La Penna, Italian Studies Programme, University of Reading:

“Anna Maria Ortese will set the standard against which other collections on Ortese will have to measure. The editors have assembled an impressive array of critical essays, containing many brilliant insights and observations that provide the reader with a critical compass with which to navigate Ortese’s complex and vast oeuvre.”