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Matilde Serao ((:maˈtilde seˈraːo); March 7, 1856 – 25 July 1927) was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the founder and editor of ''Il Mattino'', and she also wrote several novels. ==Biography== Matilde was born in the Greek city of Patras to an Italian father and a Greek mother. Her father, Francesco Serao had emigrated to Greece from Naples for political reasons. She worked as a schoolmistress in Naples, and later described those years of laborious poverty in the preface to a book of short stories called ''Leggende Napolitane'' (1881). She first gained renown as a result of the publishing of her ''Novelle'' in ''Il Piccolo'', a newspaper of Rocco de Zerbi, and later by her first novel, ''Fantasia'' (1883), which definitely established her as a writer full of feeling and analytical subtlety. She spent the years between 1880 and 1886 in Rome, where she published her next five volumes of short stories and novels, all dealing with ordinary Italian, and especially Roman, life, and distinguished by great accuracy of observation and depth of insight: ''Cuore infermo'' (1881), ''Fior di passione'' (1883), ''La conquista di Roma'' (1885), ''La Virtù di checchina'' (1884), and ''Piccole anime'' (1883). With her husband, Edoardo Scarfoglio, she founded ''Il Corriere di Roma'', the first Italian attempt to model a daily journal along the lines of the Parisian press. The paper was short lived, and after its demise Serao established herself in Naples where she edited ''Il Corriere di Napoli''. In 1892 she founded ''Il Mattino'', which became the most important and most widely read daily paper of southern Italy. The stress of a journalistic career in no way limited her literary activity; between 1890 and 1902 she produced ''Il paese di cuccagna'', ''Il ventre di Napoli'', ''Addio amore'', ''All'erta sentinella'', ''Castigo'', ''La ballerina'', ''Suor Giovanna della Croce'', ''Paese di Gesù'', novels in which the character of the people is rendered with sensitive power and sympathetic breadth of spirit. Most of these have been translated into English. She died in 1927 in Naples. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matilde Serao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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