Literary Fiction

Ogni cosa è per Giulia

(All Things are for Giulia)

Ponte alle Grazie, September 2024, pp.304

An original and vibrant portrayal of Giulia, the love of Antonio Gramsci’s life.

The rediscovery of a wild, mysterious woman at the turn of the 20th century in a novel about political struggle, anti-Fascism and imprisonment.

Giulia, educated and cosmopolitan, is an elegant violonist, but also a woman with a wild side the young Gramsci immediately loves and fears. He is in a sanatorium, depressed, with tremors, trying to recover his mental health. Their passion for each other is strong from the start and accompanies Gramsci until his last years in prison.

The fascinating story of Giulia Schucht, Gramschi’s wife, the mother of his children, his confidante and passionate lover, but who has inexplicably vanished from Gramsci’s biographies.

Ponte alle Grazie, September 2024, pp.304

  • “a heartwrenching portrayal woven with the thread of elegant writing.”

    Internazionale

  • “flavoursome writing.”

    Cristina Di Stefano, Marie Claire

  • “A novel that weaves a literary quality into Giulia’s missing words, going beyond letters and testimonials.”

     Simonetta Fiori, Robinson, La Repubblica

  • “Lucia Tancredi’s elegant language presents us a vibrant, moving Giulia Schucht, and with her all the women who have been forgotten in favour of the men in their lives who have made history.”

    Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the Premio Strega 2024

  • “Ogni cosa è per Giulia is an example of how you can describe the power and complexity of a relationship with excellent language, without resorting to easy concessions.”

    Loredana Lipperini, journalist at La Repubblica

  • “In this novel Lucia Tancredi reconstructs the unofficial figure of Gramsci’s wife by weaving together letters, photographs and testimonies.”

    Elisabetta Rasy, Italian journalist, writer and essayist.

Lucia Tancredi

Lucia Tancredi studied literature and music. A Proustian at heart, she loves the lives of others and the surfacing of involuntary memory. Her novels have been translated into various languages and adapted for the stage.

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