Residenza le 6A

Alberta

Alberta is the third of the Malfenti sisters, still a teenager: beautiful, mild and serene, she will refuse Zeno's proposal with a smile, with no embarrassment or blush. She intends to continue her studies. Zeno will be the first to whom she tells her secret: she wants to be a writer.
A reference for her mother and sisters, Alberta welcomes enthusiastically the news about Augusta's engagement to Zeno and declares she will be a good sister to him. However, Alberta too will change her mind and eventually get married.

Italo Svevo describes her this way:

Finally, Ada and Alberta came in. I breathed: they were both beautiful and brought in that room the light that was missing until then. Both were dark-haired and tall and slender, though fairly different one to another. Alberta was a bit older than seventeen. Like her mother, she had - though dark-haired – a rosy transparent skin, which added to her childish look ...

I watched her! She looked like Ada! A bit smaller than her, she held in her body the marks of childhood, not faded yet. She would frequently raise her voice and she often laughed excessively, which turned her face contracted and red.

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Le 6A

• Annetta
• Amalia
• Angiolina
• Ada
• Alberta
• Augusta