Angeliki Palli
Angelica Palli (1798 – 1875) was an Italian writer of Greek ancestry, translator and early feminist. Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time.
Biography
[edit]The daughter of a rich Greek merchant,[1] she was born in Livorno, Tuscany 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.[2] In 1851, she published a feminist essay targeted at young mothers Discorso di una donna alle giovani maritote del suo paese.[3] One of the themes in her work was the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks.[2] She married the Italian politician Giampaolo Bartolomei.[1]
She was born to Greek parents : Her father Panayiotis came from Ioannina in Epirus and not yet twenty had left his city to move to Livorno, 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, Victor Hugo and of French and Greek poets into Italian.[2]
Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time including Ugo Foscolo, Lord Byron, Alessandro Manzoni, Andreas Kalvos, Alphonse de Lamartine, Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Giuseppe Mazzini and Firmin Didot.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fauré, Christine (2004). Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women. pp. 244–45. ISBN 1135456917.
- ^ a b c Uglow, Jennifer S; Hinton, Frances; Hendry, Maggy (1999). The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography. p. 415. ISBN 155553421X.
- ^ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. p. 127. ISBN 0313288038.
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- 1798 births
- 1875 deaths
- People from Livorno
- 19th-century Greek poets
- Greek women poets
- 19th-century Italian novelists
- 19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century translators
- Italian women short story writers
- Italian women poets
- Italian women dramatists and playwrights
- Greek dramatists and playwrights
- Greek women dramatists and playwrights
- Italian people of Greek descent
- 19th-century Greek women writers
- 19th-century Italian short story writers
- 19th-century Italian poets
- 19th-century Italian women writers
- Italian translators
- English–Italian translators
- French–Italian translators
- Greek–Italian translators
- Italian salon-holders
- Writers from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany