Maria Corti
Italian philologist, semiotician, literary critic, and novelist; long-time professor at the University of Pavia and founder of the Centro Manoscritti. She advanced structuralist and semiotic approaches to Italian literature and wrote both scholarly works (e.g., La felicità mentale, Il viaggio testuale) and fiction such as the historical novel L’ora di tutti.
Books
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1. L'ora Di Tutti
A vivid historical novel that reconstructs the 1480 siege of Otranto by Ottoman forces, weaving together the voices of citizens, soldiers, and clerics to follow the town’s resistance and collapse. Through intersecting testimonies, it explores the tensions of faith, fear, love, and honor in a community pushed to its limit, culminating in a collective ordeal that fuses individual destinies into a tragic, legendary fate.