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"EMILIA" GAETANO CELLINI
WORK IN PURE CARRARA SCULPTURAL MARBLE
DEPICTING THE NOBLEWOMAN "EMILIA SINOSSI" MILANESE COUNTESS
PROTAGONIST OF THE EPISTOLARY "HIDDEN WORDS"
H 60CM X W 50CM X D 30CM
Synopsis
Milan, 1872. Emilia is a noblewoman, living in Brera with her five children and her hostile husband, nicknamed "The Bear" by her. Federico A., a Bersaglieri officer, is stationed in the South to fight brigandage. Federico lives for a brief period in Milan and courts Emilia, observing her from the window. She resists, for a short while, then gives in and a dense love correspondence begins, accompanying a consuming passion, made of clandestine encounters, words of love written on every side of the letterhead to form embroidery, stays around Italy in low-class hotels to hide from prying eyes, heartbreaking separations due to late delivery of a letter, and absolute reconciliations as soon as the possibility of meeting again is glimpsed.
Emilia, frail in health but combative in spirit, lives by this secret light under the marital roof and does not lose heart, until, exasperated by her husband, who subjugates her and whom she has never loved, she manages to request and obtain a legal separation. After the separation, Emilia and Federico continue to live their passion at a distance, which consumes them until the final twist: Emilia, after her husband's illness and death, decides to end their relationship and Federico, humiliated and mad with love, takes his own life.
Emilia's letters won the PREMIO PIEVE SAVERIO TUTINO in 1986 and were published by Rosellina Archinto in 1987 in a volume titled "Le parole nascoste" (Hidden Words).
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