Laura Beatrice Mancini

Laura Beatrice Mancini ( born January 17, 1821 in Naples, † July 17, 1869 in Fiesole), born as Laura Beatrice Oliva, was an Italian poet.

In addition to her own literary activities, which included poetry above all, she entertained from the 1840s also a literary salon for independent-minded citizens in her hometown of Naples. After the revolution of 1848 the family moved to Turin. Many of her works were related to political events of that time as the Risorgimento, the movement for an independent and united Italian nation-state. After her death, was published in 1874 in Florence under the title " Patria ed amore " a collection of her lyrical seals.

In 1840 she married the lawyer and politician Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, a prominent representative of the Risorgimento and co-founder of the Institut de Droit international ( Institute of International Law ) in Ghent in 1873. Their daughter Grazia Pierantoni - Mancini, who with lawyer Augusto Pierantoni was married, worked as a poet and writer.

In the city of Avellino, the Via Laura Beatrice Mancini Oliva bears her name.

Works (selection)

  • Ines. Florence in 1845
  • Colombo al convento della Rabida. Genoa 1846
  • Poetry varie. Genoa 1848
  • L' Italia sulla tomba di Vincenzo Gioberti. Turin 1853
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