[New-Poetry] Segantini and the bad mothers

[Anny Ballardini]

I am wondering, am I the only one who thinks that The Bad Mothers are simply
"bad mothers"?
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=30

My assumption starts from a very simple linguistic statement, that a mother
is a woman who has a child. A female human being who does not have a child
is defined a woman, a girl, a lady, ... but not a "mother".

I am specifically denying the following:

The Punishment of Lust belongs to a series of paintings produced between
1891-96 on the theme of bad mothers (cattive madri). Segantini was inspired
by Nirvana, a poem written by the 12th century monk Luigi Illica in
imitation of the Indian text Panghiavahli. Illica's poem contained the
phrase 'la Mala Madre' (the bad or wicked mother with an echo similar to 'la
mala femmina' or prostitute) to describe those women who refused the
responsibilities of motherhood.





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