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Le donne del Grimorio


The Ezzelinos.
Lords of War




Giada Trebeschi, born in Reggio Emilia 08.08.1973, grows up in Bologna the city that, even after all the next movings, will always be tho one where she really feels home.

She gets her scientific baccalaureat in Bologna at the domenican Institute Sant’Alberto Magno and then moves, together with the family, to Pescara. Here, in 1996, she graduates in Lingue e Letterature Straniere at the University G. D’Annunzio; in 1998 she graduates again in Lettere Moderne at the l’Università G. D’Annunzio of Chieti starting, immediately after it to work together with the professorship of «Modern and Contemporary History» at the faculty of Foreigners Languages and Literatures of Pescara and being instituded Cultore della Materia since 1999.

After the first theatre experiences in Bologna, the meeting with prof. Roberta Mullini at the University of Pescara pushes her to create a theatre group within the university. The group, that she constitutes, togheter with other students in 1994, is named The Merry Devils Group of Players.

The first plays, born from seminars of English Literature, are on stage in original language. The great success obtained motivates her to create a semi-professional university theatre group that will organize from 1997 to 2002 four Multilanguages Reviews (with plays in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian), two Conferences University on Stage and, for two years, professionals workshops for acting, stage-direction, play-writing and coreography.

The 2002 is the last year she partecipates at the organization of the events; in this very year she is on stage with W. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, that she also adapts, as Katarina. At the same time she organizes the second Conference University on Stage - that this is now international - and she also writes the script for the dance-play Nouvelle – Omaggio a D’Annunzio that will close the whole 2002 Review.

These are the same years in which she also works very hard for her scientific career that smoothly progresses: in 2001 she obtains from the Sovrintendenza Scolastica of Bologna the licence to teach Italian, History and Geography in high schools; she publishes many different scientific works and, in february 2005, she gets her philosophy doctorate in Storia del Mezzogiorno e dell’Europa Mediterranea dal Medioevo all’Età Contemporanea at the University of Basilicata.

In theese same years, she works with different professional theatre groups as actress, director assistant and writer. Together with this, she really enjoys her historical research on the Ezzelino da Romano family out of which she chooses to write not a scientific work but her first novel The Ezzelino. Lords of War, Firenze Libri 2005, that obtains a good success of public and that will be in the final of the important italian price «Campiello – Opera Prima» of 2006.

In 2008 she publishes her second novel "The book of Shadows´ Women", again with Firenze Libri.

She actually lives and works in Switzerland.