«Quarant'anni di perfetta unione spirituale». Lettere inedite di Eleonora Duse a Olga Ossani

[Machine translation] Eleonora Duse, the undisputed queen of the theater of her time, and Olga Ossani,, aka Febea, a leading figure in journalism and intellectual committed above all to, Because of women's rights, they lived forty years of warm friendship, or rather of “perfect union, spiritual”, as Olga defined it when commenting on the actress's death (1924). On the basis, Of the 108 letters, mostly unpublished, that Duse sent to her friend from 1884 to 1920, the contribution traces the story of this association, intense in terms of personal affections and rich in, cultural projects. The letters also highlight, once again, the singularity of, Dusian epistolary style, an oral writing, which preserves on paper the vocal depth of, a broken and passionate diction.