Cristina Campo is the main and definitive pseudonym of the Italian writer Vittoria Guerrini, born in 1923 in Bologna and died in Rome in 1977. She always liked to play with pseudonyms, confuse the masks. Elusive and withdrawn, her death was surrounded by the almost general silence of literary society.
This biography brings together the few published information about her and the many unpublished and surprising - extracted from letters, testimonies, and from the valuable and hitherto unknown diary of her father - about the most secret of Italian writers. It is the attempt to trace a trace of her passing: the Bolognese childhood, the Florentine youth, the war years and the Roman years, illness, love affairs, friendships, writing, faith. Traces also of her relationship with her Spanish friends: Ramón Gaya, Jorge Guillén or María Zambrano.
Cristina Campo is revealed in these pages as a significant figure to understand the panorama of letters and European cultural life after the Second World War. Not surprisingly, she was, as a translator, a crossroads where classical and especially contemporary authors meet, especially those who speak English, such as Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams or John Donne. Simone Weil, whom she also translated, and whose texts, beginning with Gravity and Grace, left a deep impression on her, was united by a deep spiritual friendship.

Reviews:

- Discover Cristina Campo (ABC Cultural).

- In the manner of Borges, the Italian author broke the rules of literary genres. A biography and a collection of essays rescue all the power of her writing (Babelia).