De Luca, Mariangela

Biography

Mariangela De Luca was born in Benevento and has lived in Milan since she was eighteen, graduating in classical letters at Milan’s Università degli Studi. A teacher of Italian, she has designed an unusual list for her pupils – that of lost words – in which she recovers obsolete terms, many of which are of a literary nature and then became part of the programme “La Banda dei Fuoriclasse” / “The Band of Champions” on RAIGulp Italian National Broadcast TV. Walking with Dante is her first book.