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Giulia Scappino Murena

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Giulia Scappino Murena (Ferrara 1902 – Bologna 1982) was an Italian poet of religious themes nominated three times for the Nobel Prize.[1][2]

Biography

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Giulia Scappino Murena was born in 1902. She was married to the businessman Domenico Scappino, founder of the Scappino, a luxury fashion house in Turin, Italy.[3] Together they had two children: Giuliana, a film producer and wife of director Sergio Capogna, and Carlo, an economist.

In 1959, Scappino published Il poema di Gesù ("The Poem of Jesus")[4] for which she was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Accademia dei Lincei member Alfredo Galletti in 1961 and 1962.[3][1] During the same years, member of the Italian Parliament Ugo Redano nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize "in the hope that her voice, singing about human brotherhood, will become a sign of harmony for the divided humanity."[2]

She also published other two books Umanità ("Humanity") and Il cerchio dell'amore ("The Circle of Love"). She was also a journalist for the magazine "Il Mattino" (Naples). Scappino died in the 1982 in Bologna, Italy.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nomination archive – Giulia Scappino Mureno". nobelprize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Nomination archive – Giulia Scappino Murena". nobelprize.org. April 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Giuseppe Rizzi (5 October 2022). "Negli archivi del Nobel alla Letteratura: tutti gli italiani candidati". ilrifugiodellircocervo.com. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Giulia Scappino Murena – Il poema di Gesù". abebooks.co.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2023.