Clara de Asís

This intimate and provocative book is the story of the encounter between a writer who has devoted her life to the word and a woman to whom the word was denied. Centuries of history and evolution of the feminine condition separate Dacia Maraini and Clara de Asís, but both are inextricably linked by the visceral need to make her voice heard against patriarchal oppression. From this common thread that unites the present with the past, a text is born in which the writer manages to return to the rebellious saint the words that censored her, the historical role that the figure of Francisco took from her, as well as highlighting the groundbreaking value of her resignation and his unwavering self-denial. In this, in fact, lies the disobedience of Clara, portrayed by Maraini with delicacy and complicity in a sometimes harsh book, peppered with questions and reflections: in her stubborn insubordination to the conventions of an era dominated, as today, by the man.