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'''Ida Verona''' (1865 – 29 August 1925) was a French-, Italian- and Romanian-language poet, playwright, and painter originating from the Bay of Kotor in today's Montenegro. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays.

== Life == Ida Verona was born in Brăila in 1865<ref name=":1" /> (according to other sources, in 1861<ref name="Museo" /> or 1863<ref name="Capris">{{cite journal|url=https://www.revistadanubius.ro/pdf/intregi/XXXIX/04_Marcel_Capris.pdf|title=Elite ale emigrației italiene in România &ndash; Familia Veona|language=Romanian|first=Marcel|last=Capriș|journal=Danubius|volume=XXXIX|year=2021|page=132|access-date=May 8, 2024}}</ref>), the daughter of Dalmatian merchant Francesco Spiridon Verona and Amalia Lucovič or Lucovschi.<ref name=":1" /> Brăila contained a colony of Dalmatians who fled the Kotor Bay area. She was educated at a Catholic school, the Notre Dame de Sion, in Brăila.<ref name=":0">"Ida Verona and (Mimetic?) Transnationalism" Studies on Literature, Discourse and Multicultural Dialogue, coord. Iulian Boldea. Târgu Mureș: Editura Arhipelag XXI, 2014, pp. 95–102.</ref> Her brothers were the painters {{ill|Arthur Verona|ro}} and Nicolae Henri Verona.<ref name="Museo">{{Cite web |title=Familia Verona|publisher=Museo Arthur Verona |url=http://museoarthurverona.ro/istoria/familia-verona/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |language=ro-RO}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite thesis |last=Dabižinović |first=Ervina |title=Diskursi o ženama boke kotorske: Rodni identiteti (1815-2015) (The Discourses on Women from Boka Kotorska: Gender Identities (1815-2015)) |date=2018 |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of Novi Sad |pages=56–58, 179}}</ref> Verona was also said to be a talented painter of flowers.<ref name=":1" />

Verona published two books of poetry, ''Quelques fleurs poétiques'' around 1881 and the more celebrated ''Mimosas'', published in French in Paris in 1885'','' and containing 84 poems''.''<ref name=":2" /> Many of Verona's poems wrestle with the place of women in society. Verona also wrote a number of plays, including ''Domnitz'', ''Fleurs de sang'', ''Aecathe'' (a five-act play about Christian martyr Catherine of Alexandria), ''Jane d'Arc'', ''Abdul Hamid'', ''Creaturès d'amour'', and ''La Tige Dace,'' about Decebalus, king of Dacia''.''<ref name=":1" />

During World War I she worked as a Red Cross nurse.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-04 |title=Jutarnji list - INTRIGANTNA BOKELJKA Zaboravljena pjesnikinja i dramatičarka koja je još početkom 20. st. pisala o položaju žena u društvu |url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/kultura/knjizevnost/intrigantna-bokeljka-zaboravljena-pjesnikinja-i-dramaticarka-koja-je-jos-pocetkom-20-st-pisala-o-polozaju-zena-u-drustvu-8688566 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=www.jutarnji.hr |language=hr-hr}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Eventually, she relocated to Prčanj, Montenegro to her grandfather's house and spent the rest of her life there.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2022-11/ZENE%20CG_2022%20ENG.pdf |title=Women of Montenegro |date=2022 |publisher=JU Narodna biblioteka "Radosav Ljumović", Podgorica |isbn=978-86-7260-089-6}}</ref><ref name="Capris" /> She died on 29 August 1925, and was buried in Prčanj.<ref name=":1" /> When she died, she was relatively unknown in Montenegro. It has been said that her work would have received greater appreciation during her lifetime if she had written in her native language.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

== Bibliography == * ''Quelques fleurs poétiques''. Brăila, no publishing house, 1882<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Capris"/> * ''Mimosas''. Paris: Henri Gautier, 1885.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Capris"/>

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== External links== * [https://rtcg.me/tv/emisije/naucno-obrazovni/skrinja/271181/skrinja---ida-verona.html Škrinja &ndash; a film about Ida Verona]

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