Angeliki Palli
Italian poet, translator, editor
Angelica Palli (1798 – 1875) was an Italian 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, 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. 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 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.
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