“The Lady of Feelings” Maria Venturi, author of romance novels, scripts for very successful soaps and TV series, from Incantesimo to Butta la Luna with Fiona May, journalist and director of magazines such as Novella 2000 and Annabella, has died. She died on February 21st at her home in Brescia, the beloved city to which she moved at the age of seven and where her funeral will take place on Thursday, February 22nd at 3:30 p.m. in the church of Sant'Agata.
She was born in Florence on August 1, 1933 and was 90 years old. A long life in which she had always tried to maintain a personal relationship with her readers, whose confidant she had become thanks to her column Lezioni d'amore in the weekly newspaper Oggi, entrusted to her in 2011 by the director Umberto Brindani. The management of Novella 2000, where as a young journalist she quickly became editor-in-chief and then deputy director, came in 1979. In 1981 she then took over the management of the historical weekly newspaper Annabella, which would be called Anna a few months later. Her journalist resume also listed her as a special correspondent.
After a Canossian education and a classical high school diploma, she completed her literature studies in Milan, the city where she commuted for many years. Saint Vincent received numerous awards for his journalism at the Quirinale and as a writer, the Baccante di Matera and the Molinello for his life's work and for the book Nothing is a coincidence.
A prolific author of around thirty books, she published her first stories in the weekly Novella directed by Giorgio Scerbanenco.
At the age of 25 he began the first draft of a book, but wrote his first novel in 1984 at the suggestion of Oreste del Buono: This is how “Story of Love” came about, which was published by Rizzoli and became a television mini-series with Margherita Buy in in 1987 became the main role. Over the years, “The Wife in the Frame,” “Dear Love,” “Farewell,” and “Return” followed. There have been many television adaptations of his novels such as “The Broken Story”, “The Sky Never Falls” and “Mine Forever”, which were hugely successful and even reached peak ratings of 12 million viewers. The soap Enchantment from 1998, which lasted seven seasons, achieved great popularity. Then comes the long series Orgoglio in 2004 and again in the 2000s Butta la luna (2006) and Paura di amore (2010). In 2015, he revised and updated I giorni dell'altra, a novel he had published twenty years earlier.
Family relationships, the couple, the relationship with children and also the struggles for the emancipation of women were her research areas in all areas of activity of Maria Venturi, who leaves behind her husband Andrea Mariani, her two daughters and his niece Caterina.
Her most recent books are Tanto cielo per niente, published in 2018 by Harper Collins, in which, faced with that huge sky, Stella suddenly realizes that her marriage to Maurizio is over and she tries to revive him with this last vacation on the island of Folegandros. Joint resistance for the good of the family is no longer possible. Then a phone call breaks the silence. In 2019, Cuore matto was published by Solferino. Mantras for a happy relationship.
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