(ANSA) – NUORO, 05 JAN – A reconstruction of the wedding dress worn by the writer Grazia Deledda on the occasion of her wedding with Palmiro Madesani, celebrated in Nuoro on 11 January 1900, will be exhibited on 11 January, the anniversary of wedding, in the Santu Predu museum house, where the Nobel Prize writer lived her youth.
The dress, which will be exhibited in the bedroom of the house, was reconstructed by the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (Isre) after painstaking research, which made it possible to replicate the shape, model, fabrics and size of the garment in detail. wedding.
The dress is described in detail in a letter that the writer sends to her husband a few days after the wedding. “The lilac silver dress – we read – will be trimmed with pearls: imagine the glitter; I will even cloud you, unless you too put on the shoulder pads and that terrible saber of which I am so afraid”. “No trace of this dress remains, probably Grazia used it on special occasions, perhaps to go to the theater, then the fashion changed – explains Franca Rosa Contu, former manager of the Isre museum sector, who coordinated the reconstruction works – Given the its value, especially symbolic, the Isre wanted to propose a reproduction based on the description obtained from a small image exhibited in Nuoro in 1987 in the Grazia Deledda birthplace museum and will be re-proposed in the bedroom of the writer who hosted her future husband on the day of the wedding “.
The costume exhibition is one of the events organized by the Isre for the 150th anniversary of the birth of the writer. “Deledda’s work tends to be placed on a plane of eternity for having contributed to forming the foundation of an idea of literature with essentially ethical purposes – underlines Dino Manca, scientific coordinator of the Isre Consulta on Deleddian celebrations – 2021 was the year of the 150th anniversary celebrations. Also in 2022 we will keep the memory alive with this beautiful initiative “. (HANDLE).
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