A member of the Italian Section writes:
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| Maddalena De Leo and Caterina Lerro |
On Thursday 21 April Italy celebrated
Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary in a number of ways and the Italian Section of
the Brontë Society was of course
involved through its representative, Prof. Maddalena De Leo. She was
asked to take part to two radio broadcasts, the first on Rai Radio2
(Ovunque6) and the second on Rai Radio3 (Fahrenheit) where she talked of
Charlotte, her importance today and the ‘feminism’ throughout her work.
The day
in Italy was also celebrated in the Sicilian town of Bronte, where a meeting
was held with journalists, teachers and students who spoke of Charlotte and
read some of her prose. The Italian representative was invited there as well, and
appeared on a Skype conference to greet all Sicilian citizens and to read a
message expressly sent from the Brontë Society to the Mayor of the town of
Bronte. It was a wonderful occasion to create a promising bridge between
England and Italy.
In the afternoon a major conference organized
by the Italian Ministero dei Beni Culturali was held in Naples at the National
Library with Maddalena De Leo and Caterina Lerro as speakers in front of a
large and involved public. Prof. De Leo read her interesting paper about
Charlotte’s heroines in Juvenilia and in the novels mainly pointing to the
differences existing between the first and the second group of them, Prof.
Lerro spoke of the meaning of Jane Eyre
as a novel, commenting on three of its most important pages (the incipit – the
meeting with Rochester – ‘Reader, I married him’) with the help of her
students who played the parts of the characters.
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