Education
She graduated from the University of Florence in 1943 and traveled to England and Ireland in 1947.
She graduated from the University of Florence in 1943 and traveled to England and Ireland in 1947.
Guidacci married the sociologist Lucca Pinna in 1949, and they moved to Rome in 1957. The poet taught English language and literature at the Liceo Scientifico Cavour for ten years, from 1965 to 1975. The poetry of Margherita Guidacci is deeply spiritual but not in the religious sense, rather her poems include profound sentiments and view of life as a search for regeneration, for a resurrection from death.
Guidacci regarded life as a passage and its desolation and pain a means toward transformation beyond death.
Guidacci is noted for her Italian translations of English poets, including John Donne"s sermons and Emily Dickinson"s poetry. T. South. Eliot and Elizabeth Bishop are among other poets Guidacci translated into her native language.
English education Guidacci obtained the libera docenza in the English language and literature in 1972. From 1975 to 1981, she taught English and American Literature at the University of Macerata and the College of Maria Assunta attached to the Vatican in Rome, where she lived until her death in 1992.
The English usage of the word paparazzi is credited to Margherita Guidacci’s translation of Victorian writer George Gissing’s travel book By the Ionian Sea (1901).
A character in Margherita Guidacci"s Sulle Rive dello Ionio (1957) is a restaurant-owner named Coriolano Paparazzo. The name was in turn chosen by Ennio Flaiano, the screenwriter of the Federico Fellini film, Louisiana Dolce Vita, who got it from Guidacci"s book By the late 1960s, the word, usually in the Italian plural form paparazzi, had entered the English lexicon as a generic term for intrusive photographers.