Clementina

The extraordinary story of Clementina Salvi Martello, mother and intellectual who, in the first half of the twentieth century, founded a “different” school within the walls of her home.While History rages outside the window, Clementina, a young widow with three children has to reinvent the world. Sitting at the desk that was her father’s and make ends meet, so as not to disappoint either the living or the dead. And so, utopian and feminist at heart, Clementina sets up, within the walls of her home, a school improvised and different from all the others, changing the destiny of dozens of boys and girls in a Lecce that, in the first half of the 20th century seems on the periphery of everything. Inspired by the true story of the author’s great-grandmother, Clementina is a novel that is not to be forgotten, thanks the strength of an extremely contemporary female character contemporary: a woman ‘all gestures’, alive charismatic, restless, always in search of something, ready to escape the confines of family memory and to inhabit our own.