Weaving textual tapestries: weaving the 'Italian woman-writer' into the social fabric

A tapestry is a fabric in which multicoloured threads are interwoven to produce a pictorial design. The design of a tapestry often seems three-dimensional with layers of interwoven images of people and events from various times past and present. I use the tapastry as a motif or metaphor to describe the bordering and interweaving of my 'multiple lifeworlds' (Cope & Kalantzis 8) as an Italian Australian woman, academic, writer and social activist. Within and between each .of these worlds are points of tension and confluence, questions and emotions that motivate my own research and writing, and motivate my work with young people to articulate their own 'multiple lifeworlds' through writing
and art.

Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian humanists and of the world of classical scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800.

Vol. 6: Supplement. A-Z has half title: Dictionary of the Italian humanists.

Lettere di celebri scrittori italiani.

University of Illinois bookplate: "From the library of Conte Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana Lazelada di Bereguardo, purchased 1921".

Gemme della letteratura italiana; modelli di prosa e poesia, con notizie biografiche, giudizi critici, e argomenti delle opere principali antiche e moderne.

Mode of access: Internet.

Francesco Petrarca, la vita /

Bibliography: p. [93]-94.

Il primo passo; note autobiografiche di A. D'Ancona [ed. altri].

Mode of access: Internet.

L'Umanesimo e la Cioceria.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Giuseppe Baretti : with an account of his literary friendships and feuds in Italy and in England in the days of Dr. Johnson /

Imperfect copy: frontispiece wanting.

Biografia degli scrittori padovani /

Issued in parts.

My imprisonments : memoirs of Silvio Pellico da Saluzzo /

Mode of access: Internet.

Opere varie in verso e in prosa /

Mode of access: Internet.

La Verona illustrata : ridotta in compendio, principalmente per uso de' forestieri, con varie aggiunte : premessa in ristretto la vita del marchese Scipione Maffei.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

My ten years' imprisonment /

Mode of access: Internet.

Le mie prigioni,

Mode of access: Internet.

My ten years' imprisonment /

Translation of: Le mie prigioni.