Maria Corti

Maria Corti
Born	(1915-09-07)7 September 1915 Milan, Italy
Died	22 February 2002(2002-02-22) (aged 86) Milan, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Literary scholar and novelist

Maria Corti (7 September 1915 – 22 February 2002) was an Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist. Considered one of the leading literary scholars of post-World War II Italy, she was awarded numerous prizes including the Premio Campiello for the entire body of her work. Her works of fiction were informed by her literary scholarship but also had a distinctly autobiographical vein, particularly her Voci del nord-est (1986) and II canto delle sirene (1989). For most of her career she was based at the University of Pavia where she established the Fondo Manoscritti di Autori Moderni e Contemporanei, an extensive curated archive of material on modern Italian writers.^[1]