Goliarda Sapienza

Early life
Sapienza was born on 10 May 1924 in Catania, Sicily, to Maria Giudice (1880–1953) and Giuseppe "Peppino" Sapienza (1880–1949). Giudice, a prominent journalist originally from Lombardy, was a feminist activist as well as a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party who had been repeatedly imprisoned for her beliefs. Giudice collaborated with national and international left-wing intellectuals, including Angelica Balabanoff, Antonio Gramsci, Lenin, and Umberto Terracini. Giudice had a "free union" relationship with Carlo Civardi, who had died while fighting as a soldier in World War I, leaving her with seven children to raise. In 1919 Giudice moved to Sicily to help organize the local socialist organizations and trade unions. It was in Catania that she met Peppino Sapienza, who had raised himself from the working class to become a lawyer. He was later to help draft the Constitution of Italy.
Giudice and Sapienza started a family together (though they never married). Goliarda Sapienza was their second child, and was named for her brother, Goliardo, who died before she was born. She had many step-siblings from her parents’ previous families who lived together in the same house in Via Pistone, Catania. Giudice was at one time the manager of the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci at the newspaper Grido del Popolo; Gramsci had acted as a babysitter to Sapienza's older siblings.
Sapienza spent her childhood in a non-conformist feminist anti-fascist and anti-clerical environment, where she was exposed to a mix of different class backgrounds and to active political involvement. Since her father did not want her to be indoctrinated by the fascist propaganda of the Mussolini regime she was removed from the formal school system when she was 14 and…

In October 2020, the Goliarda Sapienza Women's Library in the La Montagnola district of Rome was dedicated to her.
Streets and squares in her birthplace of Catania as well as in Palermo, Gaeta and Linguaglossa have been named after her.

Un giorno nella vita (1946)
Fabiola (1949)
Persiane chiuse (1950) Directed by Luigi Comencini.
Behind Closed Shutters 1951)
Altri tempi (1952)
La voce del silenzio (1953). Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Senso (1954)
Ulysses (1955)
Abandoned (1955)
Lettera aperta a un giornale della sera (1970)
Dialogo di Roma (1983)
She also dubbed:

Elena Varzi in It's Forever Springtime (1950)
Caterina Rigoglioso in Love in the City (1953)
Virna Lisi in The Doll That Took the Town (1953)