BRUNAMONTI-BONACCI, MARIA ALINDA. - Poetess, b. at Perugia on 21 Aug. 1841, d. there on 3 Feb. 1903. At fifteen she published her first *Canti*, arousing distrust on account of her remarkable precocity. In 1860, after moving with her family to Recanati, she echoed patriotic enthusiasm for the battle of Castelfidardo in her *Canti nazionali*. In 1868 she married Pietro Brunamonti, professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Perugia, and returned to her native city, where she lived almost continuously until her death.
Endowed with rigorous studies and exquisite sensitivity, she knew how to clothe noble thoughts and fresh, vivid images in classical form. Her earliest inspirations, to which she often returned, were religious: “the first fruits of her song were to Mary.” Following in the footsteps of ZANELLA, who held her in great affection, she essayed scientific-apologetic themes. She assiduously sought moral symbols in the aspects of external nature, as is especially evident from the collections: *Nuovi canti* (Città di Castello 1887) and *Flora* (Rome 1898). In the *Discorsi d’arte* and in the *Ricordi di viaggio* (published posthumously in 1905), B. gives proof of such delicacy and insight as to make her prose pages the most complete manifestation of her personality.