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 | |
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| Born | Carolina Sabbadini 29 November 1837 Trieste |
| Died | 24 January 1919 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Spouse | Girolamo Luzzatto Coen |
| Relatives | Carlo 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
- "Carolina Luzzatto House". Let's go Gorizia. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- 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.
- Maddalena Del Bianco. "Luzzatto Coen Carolina (1837–1919). Giornalista e Patriota" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico dei Friulani. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- 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.
- "Luzzatto, Carolina C." WorldCat. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- 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.