Catherine Of Siena

Catherine Of Siena

female, deceased (1380)
Italianwomenwriter, Women of medieval Italy, mortification, siena, Hermit, Women writer…Italian, Medieval writer
Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican Tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order. Catherine was the 23rd...
Trotula Of Salerno

Trotula Of Salerno

female, 919 years old
De passionibus mulierum, Italianwomenwriter, from Salerno, gynecology, Women writer, obstetrics…Medieval writer, Women, Italian, The Diseases of Women
Trotula of Salerno (b. c. 1090), also known as Trotula di Ruggiero, Trota and Trocta, was a female physician who wrote several influential works on...
Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci

female, deceased (2006)
Italian, corriere della sera, Lung cancer death, columnist, Critic of Islam, journalist…Italian partisans, Italian resistance movement, Italian resistance member, Italianwomenwriter, Italian Christian
Oriana Fallaci (June 29 1929 - September 15 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War...
Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg

female, deceased (1991)
Women novelist, Italianwomenwriter, Women short story writer, Member of the Italian Communist Party, Italian, novelist…Short story writer, writer
Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics, and philosophy.
Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante

female, deceased (1985)
Italianwomenwriter, Women novelist, Italian, novelist, writer, From Rome
Elsa Morante (August 18, 1912 - 25 November, 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel "La Storia" ("History").
Vittoria Aganoor

Vittoria Aganoor

female, deceased (1910)
Italianwomenwriter, from Padua, Giuseppina Pacini, perugia, padova, cancer death…Italian
Vittoria Aganoor (Padova,1855-Perugia, 1910) was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry. She was the 7th child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina...
Laura Cereta

Laura Cereta

female, deceased (1499)
Italianwomenwriter, Italian, From brescia, Women writer, Renaissance, humanism
Laura Cereta (1469-1499) was a Renaissance humanist and feminist. Most of her writing was in the form of letters to other intellectuals.
Ida Baccini

Ida Baccini

female, deceased (1911)
Italian, children's writer, child, cordelia, Children's literature, Italianwomenwriter
Ida Baccini (1850-1911) was an Italian writer for children. Baccini edited a popular journal for girls, "Cordelia".
Giovanna Zangrandi

Giovanna Zangrandi

female, deceased (1988)
Italianwomenwriter, Women novelist, Italian resistance member, resistance, Resistance during World War II, Italian
Giovanna Zangrandi (1910-1988) was an Italian novelist and Resistance fighter.
Angela Bianchini

Angela Bianchini

female, 88 years old
Jewish, Rome, Italy, Short story writer, Jewish person, literary criticism, Literary critic…Italian, Italianwomenwriter
Angela Bianchini (born 1921 in Rome) is an Italian fiction writer and literary critic, from a Jewish family. She grew up there and emigrated to the...