Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli (February 12, 1886 – March 31, 1978), was an Italian botanist, and naturalist. A native of Sassari, in

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, in 1906 she moved to

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with her brother Efisio Mameli, chemist and pharmacologist at the local university, where in 1907 she graduated in Natural Sciences. In 1915 she obtained the ''libera docenza''. While a junior lecturer at the

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, she married agronomist Mario Calvino. In 1920 Mario offered Eva Mameli a job as Head of the Botany Department of the Agricultural Experiment Station (Estaciòn Experimental Agronòmica) in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, where the couple went to live and where in 1923 their first child,

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...

, was born. Born into a secular family, Eva has been described by her son Italo as a pacifist, educated in the "religion of civic duty and science".Calvino, "Political Autobiography of a Young Man", Hermit in Paris, 132. She died in San Remo, aged 92.

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», vol. 68,

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, Roma 2007, pp. 376–378. * * Pedrotti F., ''Eva Mameli Calvino'', in Idem, ''I pionieri della protezione della natura in Italia'', Temi, Trento 2012, pp. 139–144. * Strickland E., ''Scienziate d'Italia. Diciannove vite per la ricerca'', Donzelli Editore, Roma 2011.

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