Emilia Salvioni


Emilia Salvioni was an Italian writer.
The daughter of Giovanni Battista Salvioni, a statistics professor, and Rosa Schiratti, she was born in Bologna. A maternal aunt married writer Giuseppe Toniolo. Her mother died while she was still very young and Salvioni immersed herself in reading. She published her first short stories in 1918. She then published two novels in the literary journal L'avvenire d'Italia: Prima che ritorni il sole in 1922 and Quella che aspettavo sei tu in 1923.
In 1927, after her father's death, she became librarian for the law school of the University of Bologna. She began contributing stories and poems for children to the journal Corrierino. After World War II, she founded the women's journal Serena and served as its director. She also served as editor for a series of novels for young women Collana Azzura published by the Cappelli publishing house. Salvioni also contributed articles on art, literature, theatre and cinema to various periodicals.

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