Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
Nuoro is a city and comune (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of Mount Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), it is the sixth-largest city in Sardinia. Its frazione (borough) of Lollove is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Mount Ortobene is a mountain in the province of Nuoro, in central Sardinia, Italy, close to the town of Nuoro.
Angelina is a 1947 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa starring Anna Magnani. The film was presented at the 1947 Venice Film Festival, where Magnani was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
Cenere is a 1916 silent film directed by and starring Febo Mari. It is adapted from the 1904 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda. It is notable as the only film performance by the Italian theater star Eleonora Duse.
Devotion is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Augusto Genina.
Love and Blood is a 1951 Italian-German crime melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles. It was also known as City of Violence. The film's art direction was by Max Mellin and Rolf Zehetbauer.
Red Love is a 1952 Italian crime melodrama film directed by Aldo Vergano and starring Marina Berti, Massimo Serato and Guido Celano. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It is an adaptation of the 1915 Sardinian-set novel Marianna Sirca by Grazia Deledda and is sometimes also known by this title. Location shooting took place around Aggius and Tempio in Gallura rather than the Nuoro setting of the novel. It was not a commercial success on its first release.
The Goceano is a historical and geographical region of center-north of Sardinia island, Italy. It covers a surface of 480 km2 and has a population of 13,000 inhabitants. It is located inside the Province of Sassari, the main urban centres are Bono, Italy, considered the traditional Goceano's chieftown, Anela, Benetutti, Burgos, Bultei, Nule, Esporlatu, Illorai and Bottidda.
After the Divorce is a novel by Italian author Grazia Deledda.
Filindeu is a rare type of pasta from the Barbagia region of Sardinia. It is made by pulling and folding semolina dough into very thin threads, which are laid in three layers on a tray called a fundu and dried to form textile-like sheets. The dried sheets are then broken into pieces and served in a mutton broth with pecorino sardo cheese. Filindeu is listed on the Ark of Taste.
L'edera is a novel by Grazia Deledda published in 1908. It was translated into many languages, including an English translation by Mary Ann Freese Witt and Martha Witt with the English title Ivy.
Flavio Soriga is an Italian writer.
Dolores Turchi is an Italian writer.
The nuraghe Santu Sciori is a nuraghe located in the municipality of Pabillonis in Sardinia.
Canne al vento is a novel by the Italian author and Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda. As with her other works it centres on the theme of "unwise passion".
Grazia Pierantoni-Mancini (1841-1843–1915) was an Italian writer and the wife of Augusto Pierantoni.
Isotta Gervasi was an Italian medical doctor, she was the first woman in Italy to work as a medical doctor. She worked in the Cervese area and, thanks to her determination to aid those in need, she acquired a legendary image over time, so much so that she was remembered as the "doctor of the poor" and the "angel on a bicycle". Grazia Deledda, a close friend of Isotta who was spending her holidays in Cervia, dedicated an elzeviro, an article in the third page of a newspaper, to her in Corriere della Sera in August 1935:
"The doctor is beautiful, elegant, in the evening she transforms like the fairy Melusina, with her clothes and her dazzling jewels and her eyes and teeth even more dazzling: a fairy is also so in front of the sick bed, whether a prince or a worker, to whom, in addition to her skilful care, she generously gives bottles of ancient wine, chickens and flowers. Her name is Isotta."
