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Angelica Palli (1798 – 1875) was an
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writer of Greek ancestry, translator and early feminist. Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time.
Biography
The daughter of a rich Greek merchant,
[ she was born in ]Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...
, Tuscany
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and grew up in the Greek community there. She spoke Albanian, Greek, French and Italian. Palli wrote tragedies, dramas, short stories, romantic novels and poems.[ In 1851, she published a feminist essay targeted at young mothers ''Discorso di una donna alle giovani maritote del suo paese''.] One of the themes in her work was the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks.[ She married the Italian politician Giampaolo Bartolomei.][
She was born to Greek parents : Her father Panayiotis came from ]Ioannina
Ioannina ( el, Ιωάννινα ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in north-western Greece. According to the 2011 census, the c ...
in Epirus
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and not yet twenty had left his city to move to Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...
, a port city in great ferment, to undertake a commercial activity. Her mother Dorothea was a Lacedaemonian. Coming from a wealthy family, she studied with well-known tutors in the Leghorn environment such as De Coureil, and began improvising verses from adolescence.
Palli translated works of William Shakespeare
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, Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
and of French and Greek poets into Italian.
Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time including Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo (; 6 February 177810 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet.
He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem ''Dei Sepolcri''.
Early life
Foscolo was born in Zakynthos in the Io ...
, Lord Byron
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, Alessandro Manzoni
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, Andreas Kalvos
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, Alphonse de Lamartine
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, Giovanni Battista Niccolini
Giovanni Battista Niccolini (29 October 1782 – 20 September 1861) was an Italian poet and playwright of the Italian unification movement or Risorgimento.
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, Giuseppe Mazzini
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and Firmin Didot
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.
References
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1798 births
1875 deaths
People from Livorno
19th-century Greek poets
19th-century Italian novelists
19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
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Italian women short story writers
Italian women poets
Italian dramatists and playwrights
Italian women dramatists and playwrights
Italian people of Greek descent
19th-century Greek women writers
19th-century Italian short story writers
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