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Scheiwiller Libri paid her rent; Bignotti also assisted her financially.

That year, with the support of Corti and the publishing house Scheiwiller Libri, Merini produced “The Holy Land,” a poetry collection that, with its raw and spiritual reflections on life in a mental institution, is widely considered her masterpiece.

Today, only a handful of individual pages from the Libri are extant, but what a treasure the whole collection would be, were it found.

A peacock from Francis Willughby’s 1676 Ornithologiae libri tres.Credit:

A turkey from Ornithologiae libri tres.Credit: