Literature

Alda Merini

1931–2009Local figure

Alda Merini

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  • Lived here

    Alda Merini’s Navigli House

    Merini lived and wrote in the apartment overlooking the Naviglio Grande until her death in 2009.

  • Burial place

    Monumental Cemetery of Milan

    One of Milan’s two largest cemeteries, known for an extraordinary concentration of artistic tombs, family mausoleums, and memorial sculpture.

  • Created here

    Vicolo dei Lavandai

    The Navigli poet drew inspiration from the laundry workers for her poem “Lavandaie.”

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