Italian poet
Giulia Scappino Murena (Ferrara 1902 – Bologna 1982) was an Italian poet of religious themes nominated three times for the Nobel Prize.[1][2]
Biography
Giulia Scappino Murena was born in 1902. She was married to the businessman Domenico Scappino, founder of the Scappino, a luxury fashion house in Turin, Italy.[3] Together they had two children: Giuliana, a film producer and wife of director Sergio Capogna, and Carlo, an economist.
In 1959, Scappino published Il poema di Gesù ("The Poem of Jesus")[4] for which she was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Accademia dei Lincei member Alfredo Galletti in 1961 and 1962.[3][1] During the same years, member of the Italian Parliament Ugo Redano nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize "in the hope that her voice, singing about human brotherhood, will become a sign of harmony for the divided humanity."[2]
She also published other two books Umanità ("Humanity") and Il cerchio dell'amore ("The Circle of Love"). She was also a journalist for the magazine "Il Mattino" (Naples).
Scappino died in the 1982 in Bologna, Italy.[3]
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