This poet drew on her childhood near the Navigli canals of Milan and in a mental institution for much of the 1960s for her collection Holy Land. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this popular Italian confessional writer who rejected her label as “the mad poet.” This friend of Salvatore Quasimodo wrote the multimodal book The Other Truth. Diary of a Misfit.
ANSWER: Alda Merini
[10m] Merini’s social circle included this author and screenwriter who wrote about lumpenproletariat Italians in the poetry collection The Cries and the novel Hustlers. As a director, this man adapted The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales before being murdered in 1975.
ANSWER: Pier Paolo Pasolini
[10e] Merini’s debut collection is titled for the “presence” of this figure, who titles a set of 55 sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke.
ANSWER: Orpheus [accept The Presence of Orpheus or La presenza di Orfeo or Sonnets to Orpheus or Die Sonette an Orpheus]
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