«Bisogna che ci vogliamo un po’ bene». Anna Maria Ortese e la casa editrice Pellicanolibri di Beppe Costa, con un carteggio d’autrice

This contribution focuses on the collaboration between Anna Maria Ortese and the independent publisher Beppe Costa, who brought the author back into the publishing market in the 1980s after years of absence. It draws on a selection of unpublished letters written by Ortese to Costa between 1985 and 1986, a period of intense collaboration between the two. The letters highlight their common poetics and reveal their capacity for resilience in the face of the difficulties of everyday life and the literary market.