Ena Cazzulani Allegri, born Elena Cazzulani (1920 – 2008) was an Italian writer and poet. In the 1980s, she founded at her home a literary salon, which became an essential meeting place for the Lodi's intellectuals.
Biography Elena Cazzulani is born in 1920 in Lodi, and she is the daughter of Giovanni Cazzulani, architect and the last headmaster of the Collegio Cazzulani School, founded by her grandparents, Francesco Cazzulani and Elena Roda. Unlike her closest ancestors, Ena held no administrative position at the school, preferring to dedicate herself to writing. She counted her family history in the book Il collegio Cazzulani (The Cazzulani School) in 1988.
She has written poems, novels, and biographies dedicated to several important women in the region, including Ada Negri, Vittoria Manzoni, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Maria Cosway, Carlotta Ferrari, and Giuseppina Strepponi. Ercole Ongaro, Il Lodigiano nel Novecento: la cultura, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2006
The municipality of Lodi dedicated a street to her in December 2014. One of the exterior walls of the Francesco Cazzulani Institute bears her portrait reproduced on a monochrome turquoise ceramic tile, work by Luigi Poletti. Elena Cazzulani died in Vigevano in 2005 at the age of 84.
Works 1982: Cristina di Belgioioso, Ed. Lodigraf, Lodi 1983: Il muro sul ponte, Ed. Lodigraf, Lodi 1984: Giuseppina Strepponi, biografia, Ed. Lodigraf, Lodi 1985: en collaboration avec Gilberto Coletto : Francesco de Lemene. Poesia e teatro, Ed. del Campus, Lodi 1988: Il collegio Cazzulani, Edizioni Lodigraf, Lodi 1989: Maria Hadfield Cosway. Biografia, diari e scritti della fondatrice del collegio delle Dame Inglesi in Lodi, Ed. L’Immagine, Lodi 1991: Il viale delle ortensie, Ed. L’Immagine, Lodi 1992: Carlotta Ferrari da Lodi. Poetessa e musicista, Ed. L’Immagine, Lodi 1993: Ritorno al viale delle ortensie, Ed. L'Immagine, Lodi 1996: Il cielo comincia dal suolo, Ed. L’Immagine, Lodi
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References
Bibliography 2006: Ercole Ongaro, Il Lodigiano nel Novecento. La cultura, Franco Angeli, Milano