Joyce Salvadori better known by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian

Italy

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 writer, translator and partisan

Italian resistance movement

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She was born in Florence

Florence

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 as Gioconda Beatrice Salvadori Paleotti to parents from the Marche

Marche

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 of English

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 origins. Her father, count Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti, was a positivist philosopher, Anglophile and aristocrat. As opponents of Italian fascism

Italian Fascism

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 the family moved abroad. Joyce was educated according to the principles of Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher...

 in Germany

Germany

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, France

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 and Portugal

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 before taking degrees in literature

Literature

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 at the Sorbonne

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 and in philology

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 at Lisbon

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Her travels in Africa

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 during the years 1933–1938 gave birth to environmentalist

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 commitments; politically she was of the left and she became a member of the anti-fascist organization Giustizia e Libertà

Giustizia e Libertà

Giustizia e Libertà was an Italian anti-fascist organization, active from 1929 to 1945.- Italian anti-fascist organization :The anti-fascist organization Giustizia e Libertà was founded in Paris in 1929 by the Italian refugees Carlo Rosselli, Emilio Lussu, Alberto Tarchiani, and Ernesto Rossi...

. In 1938 she met Emilio Lussu

Emilio Lussu

Emilio Lussu was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.-The soldier:Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari and graduated with a degree in law in 1914...

, who was to be her companion, and later husband, until his death in 1975. Together they participated in the Resistance, for which she was awarded the silver medal for military valour.

Her literary career, encouraged by Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce was an Italian idealist philosopher, and occasionally also politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, methodology of history writing and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade...

, began in 1939 with the volume Liriche. In Fronti e frontiere she gave an account of the struggle in which she and Emilio Lussu had engaged during the Resistance. Sherlock Holmes, anarchici e siluri, a piece of Holmesian apocrypha

Apocrypha

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, which she published in 1986, should also be mentioned. She was also a translator, above all of avant-garde

Avant-garde

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 literature from Asia

Asia

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 and Africa. In particular she is known for her translations of the great Turkish

Turkey

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 poet Nazim Hikmet

Nazim Hikmet

Nâzım Hikmet Ran , commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet , was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements"...

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Joyce Lussu died in Rome

Rome

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on 4 November 1998 at the age of 86.