Carolina Luzzatto

Carolina Luzzatto (née: Sabbadini; 1837–1919) was an Italian journalist and writer. She was one of the early female newspaper directors in Italy and was part of the irredentist liberal-national journalists of the period.[1][2]

Carolina Luzzatto
Born
Carolina Sabbadini

29 November 1837
Trieste
Died24 January 1919(1919-01-24) (aged 81)
NationalityItalian
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Journalist
SpouseGirolamo Luzzatto Coen
RelativesCarlo Michelstaedter (nephew)

Biography

She was born in Trieste on 29 November 1837 to the Sabbadini family of Jewish religion and of Sephardic origin.[3] She was the eldest daughter of Isach Sabbadini and Stellina Estella Norsa, originally from Mantua.[3] Philosopher Carlo Michelstaedter was her nephew.[1] She was educated by Marco Tedeschi who was her relative and the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Trieste.[3]

She married Girolamo Luzzatto Coen in 1856 and moved to Gorizia.[4] She started her literary career in 1868 by publishing children's books[2] and continued her activity until 1875.[5] She directed the newspaper L’Isonzo from 1878 to 1880 and became the director of the newspapers Il Raccoglitore and L’Imparziale in 1880.[1] She was the director of the newspaper Il Corriere di Gorizia between 1883 and 1889 and of the newspaper Il Corriere Friulano between 1901 and 1914.[1][4] She also worked for different publication as their correspondent in Gorizia, including Il Piccolo, Patria del Friuli and Le Pagine Friulane.[1] From 30 January 1870 she contributed to a women's magazine entitled La Donna.[4]

In 1915 Luzzatto was arrested at age 78 due to her commitment to the irredentist cause.[3] She jailed in the Göllersdorf and then in Ober Hollabrunn.[3] She died on 24 January 1919 in Gorizia shortly after she was released from the prison.[3] She was buried at the Valdirose cemetery in the Nova Gorica suburb of Rožna Dolina.[6]

References

  1. "Carolina Luzzatto House". Let's go Gorizia. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  2. Tullia Catalan (2020). "The construction of the enemy in two Jewish writers. Carolina Coen Luzzatto and Enrica Barzilai Gentilli". In Martin Baumeister; Philipp Lenhard; Ruth Nattermann (eds.). Rethinking the Age of Emancipation: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918. New York; London: Berghahn Books. pp. 353–375. ISBN 978-1-78920-633-3.
  3. Maddalena Del Bianco. "Luzzatto Coen Carolina (1837–1919). Giornalista e Patriota" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico dei Friulani. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  4. Ruth Nattermann (2022). Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women's Movement, 1861–1945. Italian and Italian American Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 95. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97789-4. ISBN 978-3-030-97789-4. S2CID 250203568.
  5. "Luzzatto, Carolina C." WorldCat. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  6. Adam Smulevich (29 December 2020). "Shared Jewish heritage and values unite Nova Gorica and Gorizia, joint European Capital of Culture 2025". European Jewish Congress. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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