Events
When: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 2 p.m.
Where: Online event (Register Here)
A virtual event on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (in Italian)
Paola Bono, Anna Maria Crispino, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Edvige Giunta, and Francesca Incudine
present
Le ragazze della Triangle: Saggi Intimi e Politici di una fabbrica newyorkese (Icaobelli, 2025)
Italian translation by Paola Bono of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New Village Press, 2022)
Edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti
Paola Bono, the translator of Le ragazze della Triangle, has been a professor of English culture, literature and theater at the University of Rome Three. She spent time in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, doing research and teaching, and has traveled extensively on the five continents. Author of numerous articles and books, many of which she edited, she is now retired and continues to write and translate. She has a special interest in the work of the English playwright Caryl Churchill. She edited the seven-volume publication of his texts and translated many of them. Her translation, with Marina Vitale, of the novel HERmione by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) will be released in 2025.
Anna Maria Crispino is a journalist and essayist. She worked in different news outlet (newspaper, weekly and monthly magazines). She is the founder of Leggendaria. Libri Letture Linguaggi, an Italian bimonthly on Literature, Art and Women’s Studies, now in its 25th year of publishing (www.leggendaria.it). Author and/or editor of several books on women’s literature and politics, she now works as publishing director of Iacobelli Editore, a publishing house based in Rome with a distinctive attention for women’s writing. One of the founding member of the Società Italiana delle Letterate (SIL, Italian Society of Women Writers – www.societadelleletterate.it), since 2018 she has been among the promoters of “Feminism. Fiera dell’editoria delle Donne” (Feminism, Women’s Book Fair – www.feminismfieraeditoriadelledonne.it).
Born in Messina, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli studied in Bologna and lives in Rome. She has published ten novels (the latest The Hungry Heart of Girls, Mondadori 2025), two travel books, a children’s book and various essays, translated into numerous languages. she has edited anthologies of short stories and written several radio plays for the Italian Radio-Television. She edited the literary magazine Tuttestorie and taught ‘theory and techniques of creative writing’ at the ‘La Sapienza University in Rome. Her novel Tina, Mafia Soldier was published in English translation by Soho in 2023.
Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Awrad for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture, just published in Italy by Iacobelli as Le ragazze della Triangle. Her memoirs, essays, poems, and interviews appear in anthologies, journals, and magazines. At New Jersey City University, where she is Professor of English, she teaches courses on the memoir and a course on the Triangle fires as well as other literature and writing classes.
Francesca Incudine became passionate about frame drums at the age of 13, when she began studying percussion, focusing on folk music. As a songwriter, she often composes in Sicilian. In 2010, she participated in the World Music Award dedicated to Andrea Parodi, earning first place together with the Triskele Company with the song “Fimmini.” In 2013, she received several awards for the song “Iettavuci” (Critics Award, Best Lyrics Award, Best Music Award, Children’s Award). Other awards include: “The artist who wasn’t there” (2014), the InCanto Award (2016), the Botteghe d’Autore Award (2016) and the national Musica Controcorrente award (2016).
In 2018 her second album, Tarakè, was released, and won the Targa Tenco 2018 as best album in dialect. In the same year she won the Bianca d’Aponte Prize and the Fausto Mesolella Critics’ Prize.
Regiser Here for this Online Event in Italian
When: Thursday, April 10 – 6:30 p.m.
Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem St, Boston MA 02113 (Register Here)
SUSAN VAN ALLEN is an Italy travel expert and award-winning Italian American writer, with maternal roots in Molise and Potenza. She also designs and hosts Golden Weeks in Italy: For Women Only tours to immerse travelers in all the pleasures of the Bel Paese
