Lalla Romano

Graziella "Lalla" Romano (11 November 1906 in Demonte – 26 June 2001 in Milan) was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.

She attended the University of Turin where she studied with art historian Lionello Venturi before Cesare Pavese piqued her interest in writing.

In those years she started dating Giovanni Ermiglia, a philosophy student from Sanremo, and wrote several poems dedicated to him which have been later collected together with other previous unpublished texts in Poesie per Giovanni (2007).

After the war, she became noted for writings that drew on personal and family experiences.

[3] Her former house in Milan has been converted into a museum to preserve her work.