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Gender and Women's History
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History
WSSLINKS - Women and Gender Studies Web Sites, developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Storia delle donne a cura dell'Unione femminile nazionale. Offre una lista di risorse we: Archivi, Biblioteche, Biografie, Convegni, seminari, Guide generali, Liste di discussione, Risorse tematiche, Riviste.
Società italiana delle storiche, (SIS), via de'Fienaroli 31d - 00153 Roma - tel.fax.: 06.5813048 - e.mail: societastoriche@libero.it.
"Gopher Donna" - Women and Gender studies and information in Italy.
Server Donne , presso l' Associazione Orlando di Bologna. Cos'è il server donne : " Voci, Visioni e Azioni di donne. Sistema Informativo di Genere " a cura di: Raffaella Lamberti e Marzia Vaccari
DWF - donnawomanfemme , rivista di produzione teorica e di ricerca.
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Seminario interdisciplinare di studi sul genere - Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche "Ettore Lepore" - Dipartimento di Scienze relazionali Gustavo Iacono, Via Porta di Massa, 1, 80133 Napoli, tel. 081/7810313 - fax 081/7810306.
Archivi Riuniti delle Donne . "L’Associazione nasce nel 1994 come “costola” dell’Unione Femminile Nazionale per valorizzare l'esperienza storica femminile nelle sue diverse espressioni e di contribuire alla migliore conoscenza della storia delle donne...." Archivi presenti: Archivio Storico dell’Unione Femminile Nazionale - Archivio amministrativo del Consiglio Nazionale delle Donne Italiane - Archivio della Famiglia Majno - Archivi delle riviste «Dwf» e «Effe» - Archivi personali di: Matilde Bassani Finzi , Luisa Mattioli Peroni, Elvira Badaracco, Ada Sacchi, Tullia Carettoni ed altre. - archivio di Alba de Céspedes. Indirizzo: Corso di Porta Nuova, 32, 21021 Milano, tel. e fax +39 026599190. E-mail: giaccai@risc.idg.fi.cnr.it
Archivio di Studi di Storia delle Donne. "Premio Franca Pieroni Bortolotti".
Guida ai corsi sulle donne nelle Università Italiane. (a cura dell'Unione femminile nazionale). "Troverete in queste pagine links e informazioni relative ai corsi universitari di storia delle donne, di genere e affini."
Associazione Archivio per la Memoria e la Scrittura delle Donne. Based at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, wants to conserve the memory of women's writing and culture in modern and contemporary Italy. They say about themselves: "L'Archivio è dedicato allo specifico tema della memoria femminile dall'età moderna all'età contemporanea ... seguendo due direttrici: da un canto, l'intento è di comporre una mappatura dei materiali archivistici presenti - non solo individualmente, ma anche e più spesso all'interno degli archivi familiari - sul territorio della Toscana, ... quella della composizione di guide-inventario. (c /o Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Viale Giovane Italia 6, 50122 Firenze Tel. 055.26.32.01 - Fax 055.234.11.59).
Il manuale di storia per le scuole superiori, I fili della memoria. Uomini e donne nella storia, è in parte accessibile in internet. "...Aprire il testo a revisioni e aggiornamenti, vuol dire avere l’idea del carattere provvisorio di ogni sintesi, rispetto alle quali gli studi e i libri nuovi che arricchiscono il panorama storiografico possono modificare la visione d’insieme....Presentiamo così un editoriale di discussione dei problemi più attuali ed urgenti (in questo numero, la Storia delle donne agli esami di maturità); recensioni di nuovi libri particolarmente stimolanti; una sezione, intitolata «Il dibattito storiografico», che vorrebbe portare allo scoperto il meccanismo della costruzione storica; il racconto della vita di un personaggio storico, più o meno noto; le recensioni al nostro manuale pubblicate finora. Ed infine, la «posta», in cui ci impegniamo a rispondere alle lettere che ci auguriamo ci giungeranno, in modo da portare avanti insieme con gli insegnanti questo nostro percorso. Anna Bravo, Anna Foa, Lucetta Scaraffia".
Il Risorgimento invisibile: Presenze femminili nell'Ottocento meridionale, a cura di Laura Guidi, "...si propone di restituire alla memoria storica figure e attività femminili particolarmente significative sulla scena del Sud risorgimentale.... L’opera è concepita come un work in progress, in continuo aggiornamento [...]. Il dizionario si articola in sei sezioni: 1)Profili.- 2)Attività. - 3)Periodici femminili. - 4)Associazioni. Schede riguardanti associazioni, salotti, congreghe e altre forme di sociabilità femminile. - 5) Documenti editi e inediti. - 6)Bibliografia e risorse web. ...." Il progetto fa parte di "una ricerca su: “Il Crollo dello Stato. Apparati pubblici e opinione pubblica nelle congiunture di crisi di regime (Italia, XIX secolo)” diretta da Paolo Macry e cofinanziata dalle Università di Napoli, Pisa, Bologna e Roma III e dal Murst. Per un’analisi del programma di ricerca si può consultare il Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo, n. 6, anno 2000.
Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff. "Costituita nel 1993, si propone di contribuire alla conoscenza e allo studio della storia e del pensiero del socialismo italiano ed internazionale: Il suo scopo e’ quello di raccogliere e conservare tutti i documenti aventi rilevanza storica concernenti il movimento operaio, socialista, femminile e libertario (libri, opuscoli, cassette video, manifesti, volantini, cartoline) ma anche, piu’ in generale, tutto cio’ che ha per oggetto la storia del mondo del lavoro. La Fondazione possiede circa 35.000 volumi, riceve circa 2000 testate, conserva importanti collezioni di periodici. La biblioteca storica, le varie documentazioni ed il vasto materiale sono conservati in una sede al primo piano di un immobile sito in Via Vallazze 34 a Milano, e consiste in quattro saloni, quattro stanze e locali accessori, muniti di attrezzature idonee alla conservazione delle raccolte, oltre ad un locale al piano terra ed un ampio seminterrato...."
Donne e conoscenza storica: Incontri, libri, testi, ipertesti, film, "Sito della Comunità di Pratica e Riflessione Pedagogica e di Ricerca storica- Ideato e scritto da Donatella Massara."
Donne e cultura scritta nel medioevo. "Donne e cultura scritta nel medioevo si propone di costituire un archivio delle donne che hanno lasciato memoria di sé nelle testimonianze grafiche fino a tutto il secolo XV. Si prevede l'inserimento progressivo di nomi di copiste, con esclusione, nella fase attuale, di altre figure (come ad esempio miniatrici e legatrici) che hanno partecipato direttamente alla produzione manoscritta. I dati sono ricavati di norma dallo spoglio di fonti edite, non dalla autopsia degli esemplari: di qui la loro sinteticità e disomogeneità, che si spera col tempo di ridurre."
Associazione "Orlando". "... esiste come gruppo informale dalla seconda metà degli anni Settanta e si è costituita in Associazione davanti a notaio nei primi anni Ottanta. Ne fanno parte, quali socie ordinarie, una settantina di donne di paesi d’origine, formazione culturale, esperienze personali e profili di carriera assai differenti tra loro. Sue socie sostenitrici sono, poi, donne italiane e straniere che abbiano contribuito nel corso degli anni alla vita materiale e simbolica dell’associazione stessa. Infine, quest’ultima trae conoscenza e forza da un insieme di reti di relazione locali nazionali e internazionali con cui condivide esperienze e progetti. Infatti, le risorse umane, come oggi si dice, che "Orlando" ha saputo attivare ne costituiscono il punto qualificante e rappresentano il "di più", la ricchezza che soprattutto va segnalata e che si è riversata nel centro/biblioteca gestito dall’Associazione, grazie all’insieme delle competenze e presenze delle tante donne (e uomini) del nostro e di altri paesi che lo fanno vivere e lo frequentano. La sede sociale è sita in via Borgonuovo 2 a Bologna."
Unione Femminile Nazionale. "L'Unione Femminile Nazionale é stata fondata nel 1899 a Milano da un gruppo di donne (tra le quali Ersilia Majno, Ada Negri, Jole Bersellini Bellini) come un’associazione-ombrello in cui si raccogliessero le diverse società femminili, specie operaie.... Dal 1993, con la presidenza di Annarita Buttafuoco, la sua attività si é articolata soprattutto in progetti culturali e per la valorizzazione della memoria storica delle donne."
Archivi Riuniti delle Donne. "L’Associazione nasce nel 1994 come “costola” dell’Unione Femminile Nazionale per valorizzare l'esperienza storica femminile nelle sue diverse espressioni e di contribuire alla migliore conoscenza della storia delle donne e dei processi che nel corso del tempo, in diverse culture e società, hanno presieduto alla formazione dell'identità di genere e alla struttura dei rapporti tra i sessi. A questo fine, l’associazione compie un’opera di recupero, raccolta e tutela sia di interi fondi archivistici, sia di singoli documenti provenienti da persone, famiglie, associazioni, enti ed istituzioni varie. L’Associazione inoltre promuove ricerche e studi; organizza convegni, conferenze, seminari, dibattiti sui diversi aspetti e problemi della storia delle donne e delle relazioni tra i sessi; istituisce borse di studio per giovani studiose, finalizzate all'elaborazione di lavori scientifici; organizza corsi di aggiornamento, di formazione e di specializzazione diretti ad archiviste, bibliotecarie, insegnanti, funzionarie del pubblico impiego e così via."
Ceresdonne - Centro Studi sulla Storia e la Cultura delle donne della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia. "Il sito intende successivamente fornire,con il sostegno e la collaborazione delle istituzioni e delle Associazioni femminili regionali, servizi on line di informazione sulle iniziative delle donne. Info: ceresdonne@tcd.it".
Società italiana delle letterate. "Nel novembre del 1995, ..., emerse la proposta di costituire una associazione di donne impegnate nella ricerca e nella pratica della scrittura e della letteratura. Nacque così nel 1996 la Società Italiana delle Letterate (SIL), la cui specificità è quella di avere come ambito di riflessione lo "spazio letterario" comparato al femminile. Ricerca, dunque, di donne, e pratica critica nei confronti del "canone" in letteratura, nel cinema, nel linguaggio delle immagini e dei mezzi di comunicazione, nella scrittura teatrale: l’attività della SIL copre tali ambiti e raccoglie circa duecento studiose, storiche della letteratura, semiotiche, giornaliste di cultura, scrittrici, traduttrici e appassionate delle scritture femminili. Le socie svolgono attività locale e regionale anche in connessione con altri gruppi, centri e soggetti istituzionali. La SIL organizza inoltre un seminario estivo di confronto e approfondimento e un laboratorio di formazione."
SexBiblio, a bibliography of the history of western sexuality. "... It contains about 16.600 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 1945. Beyond this it contains important titles of antique sexual history, of the history of sexuality of the middle ages and contemporary times, also including titles for non-Western societies." Bibliography maintained by Franz X. Eder, Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, e-mail address: franz.eder@unive.ac.at
Associazione per una Libera Università delle Donne. "... è un'Organizzazione Non Lucrativa ad Utilità Sociale (ONLUS), nata nel 1987 da un gruppo di donne di varia estrazione sociale e culturale. Attualmente coinvolge circa 300 donne che danno continuità a un lavoro ormai ventennale, nato spontaneamente attorno ai Corsi di Educazione degli adulti frequentati dalle donne e alle esperienze dei Consultori per la salute della donna. La sede dell'Università delle Donne è in Corso di Porta Nuova, 32 - Milano - tel/fax. 02.6597727."
Storia delle Donne - "Da GopherDonna a Storia delle donne: 1994 - 2001. Questa e' la nostra storia ... Nell'agosto del 1993 ho iniziato a utilizzare Internet e poco dopo ne ho illustrato le grandi potenzialita' ad Annarita Buttafuoco, che avevo conosciuto da poco tempo e che era allora Presidente della Società italiana delle storiche, docente all'Università di Siena e Presidente dell'Unione femminile nazionale. A nome di queste tre istituzioni avviammo un progetto per stimolare l'uso di Internet da parte delle donne italiane fornendo una guida alle risorse delle/sulle donne presenti in rete, e in particolare, alle risorse relative alla ricerca storica e del movimento. Lo strumento tecnico per costruire questi repertori era allora il Gopher; di qui il nome che scegliemmo GopherDonna. Il servizio fu aperto il 15 marzo 1994 e ben presto linkato da moltissimi siti universitari americani. Successivamente, nel dicembre 1995 nacque la nuova versione con la tecnologia web, mantenendo pero' il vecchio nome molto conosciuto. La nuova versione si concentrò prevalentemente sulle risorse di storia delle donne, tralasciando le informazioni più generali, dato che stavano nascendo ormai diversi siti italiani di donne in rete. Nel 1998-99 il sito ebbe un periodo di stasi legata alla lunga malattia e poi alla morte di Annarita avvenuta il 26 maggio 1999. Nell'agosto 2000 il sito ha ripreso vitalità con una nuova veste: ora il suo nome è divenuto Storia delle donne, ed è curato dall'Unione femminile nazionale (nelle persone mia e di Eleonora Cirant). Nella primavera 2001 ha avviato un nuovo servizio: la Guida ai corsi delle donne nelle Università italiane. Nella primavera del 2002 cambiamo il vestito al sito! Susanna Giaccai."
Casa Internazionale delle Donne. (Via della Lungara 19 - 00165 Roma, Segreteria: telefono: 06.68809723 - fax: 06.68218287, e-mail: cciddonne@tiscalinet.it). "The International House of Women has been reopened in Rome [...] in a building which was built during the century of 1600 and it is called “Buon Pastore” (Good Shepherd). More than 40 associations, some constitute a society, have brought to life a big project, (which is unique in Italy), which talks about the history and success of women’s liberation movement..."

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Last updated the 13th of December 2002.

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For a few illustrious Italian women, reference is made to:
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml


AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA
mathematician - (1718-1799)
One of her solutions for an algebraic equation is still found in today's textbooks. The solution follows a curve now called the "witch of Agnesi" not because she was thought to be a witch, but because the shape of the curve was called aversiera , which in Italian means to turn. The word is also a slang short form for the avversiere which means wife of the devil. A series of mistranslations over time finally set the name of curve to the "witch of Agnesi". We now present the Living Witch of Agnesi. Watch the curve grow before your very eyes.

She was a child prodigy. By the age of nine she wrote, read and spoke Italian, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish and Hebrew, and was known as the "oracle of the seven tongues". When Pope Benedick XIV appointed her to the chair of higher mathematics at the University of Bologna he said

Permit me, mademoisells, to unite my personal homage to the plaudits of the entire Academy. I have the pleasure of making known to my country an extremely useful work which has long been desired, and which has hitherto existed only in outline. I do not know of any work of this kind which is clearer, more methodic or more comprehensive than your Analytical Institutions. There is none in any language which can guide more surely, lead more quickly, and conduct further those who wish to advance in the mathematical sciences. I admire particularly the art with which you bring under uniform methods the divers conclusions scattered among the works of geometers and reached by methods entirely different."

from Women in Science, H.J. Mozans, 1913, D. Appleton and Company.
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ARDINGHELLI MARIA ANGELA
Physicist (fl. 1756)
Born in Naples, Italy, she was noted for her abilities in physics and mathematics. One known piece of her work is a translation into Italian of the book "Vegetable Staticks" by Stephen Hale.

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Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola
(geb. ca. 1702)
Barbapiccola lebte wahrscheinlich in Neapel. Ihre genauen Daten sind nicht bekannt.
In ihrem philosophischen und wissenschaftlichen Denken war sie beeinflußt vom Gedankengut der 'Accademia Arcadia', einem Kreis von Intellektuellen und Künstlern, der die Erneuerung des gesamten Wissens anstelle von verfestigten Lehrmeinungen beabsichtigte.

Babrapiccola verfaßte die erste italienische Übersetzung der Principia philosophicae von René Descartes, die 1722 erschien.

Wie schon im Untertitel der Übersetzung, Tradotti dal Francese col confronto del Latino in cui l'Autore gli scrisse, angedeutet, legt sie besonderen Wert auf den Vergleich ihrer italienischen Übersetzung mit der lateinischen Originalausgabe.

An der französichen Übersetzung übt sie deutliche, wenn auch vorsichtige Kritik. Dass Descartes selbst sie den Lesern als seriöse Arbeit empfiehlt, kann sie sich nur mit seinem im Vordergrund stehenden Interesse an der Verbreitung seiner Philosophie erklären.

Obwohl Descartes, eingeschüchtert durch den Galilei-Prozeß 1633, schon im Vorfeld einige Passagen der Principia entschärft hatte, um einen offenen Konflikt mit der katholischen Kirche zu vermeiden, wurde das Werk 1663 in Italien verboten.

Barbapicolla fordert in einem einleitenden Epistel, den sie als Vorwort voranstellt, die katholische Kirche auf, die cartesianische Philosophie erst vorurteilslos zu studieren, bevor sie verkünde, sie stünde im Gegensatz zu ihren Lehren. Denn die beste Art der Bekämpfung einer Irrlehre sei deren argumentative Widerlegung und nicht deren Diskreditierung oder der Verbot.

Nachdem sie durch ihre Descartes-Übersetzung der Principia philosophicae bekannt geworden war, erhielt sie Zugang zum Hause des Geschichtsphilosophen Giambattista Vico, wo ihr Luisa Vico, Tochter des Philosophen, eine Freundin wurde.

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http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu...ate/ITALY.html

Consult the above link for further m essages about some of the writers.

WRITERS FROM ITALY


Aganoor, Vittoria [aka Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj] (1855-1910) ; In Italian ; In Italian
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799) ; More Information ; More Information
Albana, Lucia (fl. 16th C.)
Alciati, Laura Gabrielki degli (fl. 16th C.)
Aldobrandina, Liona (fl. 16th C.)
Aleramo, Sibilla [aka Rina Faccio] (1876-1960) ; In Italian
Aliprandi, Ortensia (fl. 16th C.)
Andreini, Isabella Canali (1562-1604)
Aragona, Giulia (fl. 16th C.)
Aragona, Tullia D' (1510-1556)
Aringhieri, Ermelma [aka Ermelma de' Ceretani] (fl. 16th C.)
Atalanta (fl. 16th C.)
Avalli, Ippolita (1949-)
Avalo, Costanza d' (fl. 16th C.)
Baffa, Francesca (fl. 16th C.)
Banti, Anna (1895-1985)
Baranay, Inez (1949-)
Barbapiccola, Giuseppa Eleonora
Battiferra, Laura [aka Laura Battiferri Ammannati] (1523-)
Bellonci, Maria
Bellonci, Maria (1902-1986)
Berenice G. (fl. 16th C.)
Bergalli Gozzi, Luisa (1703-1779)
Bertana, Lucia (fl. 16th C.)
Bertani Dell'Oro, Lucia
Bettarini, Mariella (1942-)
Bianchetti, Giovanna
Bianchi, Angela (1921-)
Bichi, Pia (fl. 16th C.)
Bigolini, Giulia
Blagden, Isa [aka Ivory Beryl] (ca.1816-1873)
Bonacci Brunamonti, Maria Alinda (1841-1903)
Bonanni, Laudomia (1908-)
Borgese Freschi, Maria [aka Erinni] (1881-1947)
Borghi, Liana
Borriello, Elvira (1955-)
Braccalli, Giulia (fl. 16th C.)
Braccalli, Selvaggia (fl. 16th C.)
Brazzà, Countess di (1862-)
A Guide to Old and New Lace in Italy, Exhibited at Chicago in 1893 (PDF at Arizona)
Brembata, Emilia (fl. 16th C.)
Brunozzi, Cornelia [aka Cornelia de Villani] (fl. 16th C.)
Caminer, Elisabetta (1751-1796)
Campiglia, Maddalena
Canossa, Egeria (fl. 16th C.)
Capece, Isabella (fl. 16th C.)
Caraffa, Olimpia (fl. 16th C.)
Carpi, Anna Maria
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757)
Castellana, Gerolema (fl. 16th C.)
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589)
Catherine of Bologna [aka Caterina dei Vigri; Santa Caterina Vegri] (1413-1463)
Catherine of Genoa [aka Caterina Fieschi Adorno] (1447-1510)
Catherine of Siena, Saint [aka Santa Caterina da Siena; Catherine Benincasa] (1347-1380)
The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin (HTML at CCEL)
Saint Catherine of Siena As Seen in Her Letters (Gutenberg text)
Catterina, La Beata [aka Catherine Fieschi Adorni]
Cavalcanti, Giulia (fl. 16th C.)
Cavalli, Patrizia (1947-)
Cederna, Camilla (1921-)
Celsa, Nicoletta (fl. 16th C.)
Cepperello, Lisabetta da (fl. 16th C.)
Cereta, Laura (1469-1499) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
Cerrino, Mariangela (1948-) ; In Italian
Chi, Una
Chiavello, Livia del
Christine de Pisan [aka Christine de Pizan] (ca.1364-ca.1431) ; Concordance ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
Cialente, Fausta Terni (1898-)
Cibo, Leonora [aka Leonora de' Vitelli] (fl. 16th C.)
Ciciliana, Nina
Clare of Assisi [aka Chiara di Favarone] (1193 or 1194-1253)
Clark, Eleanor (fl.1964)
Colombi, la Marchesa [aka Maria Antonietta Torriani] (1846-1920)
Colonna, Vittoria (1490-1547) ; Portrait
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Christine de Pisan
(c.1364-c.1430)
Christine de Pisan was born in Venice ca. 1364. Her father, Tomasso de Pizzano, a famous physician and astrologer, was invited to the court of King Charles V of France when Christine was five years old. She remained in France all her life. She received an excellent education. She spoke French and Italian, and possibly Latin as well. In 1380, when she was about fifteen, Christine married Etienne du Castel, a court secretary. The marriage was exceptionally happy.
Unfortunately, King Charles V died that same year, and Tomasso's favorite status at the court, as well as much of his income, was reduced by the new king. Etienne's income was reduced at the same time, and the family found itself in more difficult circumstances. Soon Tomasso died after a prolonged illness and in 1390, Etienne, too, died suddenly. Christine was left a widow at the age of twenty-five with three small children, her mother and a niece to support. The small amount of money left to her by Etienne was the subject of dispute, and Christine was involved in a series of lawsuits in an attempt to recover it.

She decided to earn her income as a writer. Her poems, songs and ballads were well-received and soon she was able to support her family. Christine de Pisan became popular and her work was later supported by many lords and ladies of medieval Europe, including Berry, Brabant and Limburg,the Dukes of Burgundy, King Charles VI, and his wife Queen Isabella of Bavaria. Much of her work contains a great deal of autobiographical information, which was unusual for writers of that time. Some of her works are: The Changes of Fortune, a long poem containing examples from her life and of other famous people, The Epistles of Othea, a collection of ninety-nine allegorical tales, and The Road of Long Study. In 1404, she was commissioned by the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Bold, to write a biography of his deceased brother, King Charles V. She wrote a very flattering first-hand account of the king and his court in The Book of the Deeds and Good Manners of the Wise King Charles V.

An autobiographical Vision of Christine was written in 1405. This volume was written partly to silence her critics in a somewhat heated literary debate on the subject of women. She followed this up with The Book of the City of the Ladies in 1405, a collection of stories about heroines of the past, and The Treasure of the City of Ladies : Or the Book of the Three Virtues in 1406.

Christine de Pisan was very devoted to France and was horrified by the civil strife that erupted after the assassination of Louis of Orleans. In 1410, she wrote Lamentations on the Civil War, and then The Book of Feats of Arms and Chivalry, which was one of the first books to be translated later into English. She was devastated by the hostilities with England and the Hundred Years' War and, in 1418, she retired to live in a convent. Encouraged by the early successes of Joan of Arc, she dedicated her last known poem Hymn to Joan of Arc to Joan in 1429. Christine de Pisan died ca.1430.



Contributed by Danuta Bois, 1996.

Bibliography:
Heroines: Remarkable and Inspiring Women/An Illustrated Anthology of Essays by Women Writers, Crescent Books, 1995. Christine de Pisan profile by Andrea Hopkins.

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http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/SLprojects/Cathy/slp2.html

Caterina Scarpellini was a meteorologist, astronomer, and mathematician in the 19th century. Scarpellini was a very important woman because she discovered a comet in 1854. She received a gold medal from Italy in 1872 for her work in math. She also put together a Meteorological Ozonometric station, a place that measures a type of weather, in Rome. Scarpellini accomplished many great things in her lifetime.
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Scarpellini (Caterina), astronome, mathématicienne (statisticienne) et météorologue née en 1808. Elle a découvert une comète en 1872, et à mis sur pied une station météorologique à à Rome.

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Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta:

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1901- ), Italian biologist, born in Turin and educated at the University of Turin Medical School. She shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with American biochemist Stanley Cohen for their contributions to the understanding of growth factors (see Growth Factor) in human development. Levi-Montalcini was cited for her discovery of the factor that promotes the growth of cells in the peripheral nervous system. Cohen, her student, discovered epidermal growth factors. In 1947 she moved to the U.S.; she became a citizen in 1956.

"Levi-Montalcini, Rita" Microsoft(R) Encarta.
Copyright(c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.
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INTERNATIONAL
MEDITERRANEAN WOMEN'S FORUM
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ROUND TABLE
AUSTRALIAN AND ITALIAN WOMEN SCIENTISITS IN TURIN
February 3-6th
Quality and responsibility of female contribution in the fields of research and application of science and technology. Contributions from Australia and Italy.
The Mediterranean Women's Forum, Italian Section, organizes in Turin a Round Table between Australian and Italian scientists to follow up the commitment endorsed in the Action Plan approved at the UNESCO's world Conference on "Science in the 20th Century: a new Commitment".
Topic to be debated is:

Round Table aims
- Building up the Network "Women and Science", approved at the UNESCO's World Conference on Science for the XXI Century, held in Budapest on January 1999, with the specific contribution of Australian and Italian scientists.
- Selecting priorities among the themes outlined in the "Women and Science" addendum presented in Budapest, based on the 6 regional forums (one per continent) promoted by UNESCO.
- Defining objectives and common projects to be developed in the next few years by Italian and Australin women scientists

Participants
Australian and Italian women scientists committed in the fields of medicine, law, economics, information technology, philosophy, sociology.
Representatives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Italian National Commission for UNESCO, the Italian Institutes of Culture in Melbourne and Sydney, local authorities of the City of Turin, Province of Turin and Piedmont Region.

Interventions

All the interventions are been published in this document. The scientists' interventions -everyone in english- and the Round Table conclusions, are reported in this site and can be examinated through the followings links:


Interventions of the scientists
LINK Subject of the intervention
A. Calcatelli - Istituto di Metrologia Gustavo Colonnetti del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - IMGC-CNR
"The influence of the models and of education lack on women professional choice"
B. Fubini - Docente di Chimica Generale, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Torino
"Will women ever change science? Is science, as we know it now, being male dominated, typically a man's creature? Would science be different if women had created science?"
I. Kurtboke - Biomedical Researcher AMRAD Discovery Technologies, Melbourne
The Role of Women in Biotechnology and Biobusiness
C. Morse - Dean, Faculty of Human Development, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne
"Rattling the case of equity"
M. Plassa - Consiglio Nazionale di Ricerca, Istituto di Metrologia "G. Colonnetti"
"The slow rise of women in technical professions: an analysis of the experience of an Italian female chemist "
F. Walker - Research Fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Melbourne Tumor Biology Group
Re-addressing of the balance of man to women visibility in science achivements
J. White- Chief Executive
Health Waikato Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand
"Ethics and genetics"


Conclusions
At the conclusion of the Round Table a final report has been prepared.

Follow-up
Creation of further contacts and links among the participants. Final Report pubblication.

This meeting also follows the conferences and meetings held in the Australia by the Women's Forum President senatrice Tullia Romagnoli Carettoni and the Secretary General Mrs Maria Paola Azzario Chiesa on the subject. (please read the report in the the specific webpage) and has the contibutions of the Foreign Office, of the Piemonte region , the district of Turin and the municapility of Turin.

COLLABORATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

UNESCO, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian National Commission for UNESCO, Italian Institute of Culture of Melbourne (Au), Italian Group "Women and Science", Region Piedmont, City of Turin, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation, University of Turin, Bioindustry Park Canavese, Institute of Metrology "Gustavo Colonnetti" of the CNR (National Centre of Research)


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Italian Women Painters of the 16th and 17th century.
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http://www.womenshistory.about.com/l.../aa021223a.htm

>>Properzia de Rossi (1490-1530): An Italian sculptor and miniaturist (on fruit pits!) who learned art from Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael's engraver.

>>Sofonisba Anguissola (1531-1626): Of noble background, she learned painting from Bernardino Campi and was well known in her own time. Her portraits are good examples of Renaissance humanism: the individuality of her subjects comes through. Four of her five sisters were also painters.

>>Lucia Anguissola (1540?-1565): sister of Sofonisba Anguissola. Her surviving work is "Dr. Pietro Maria."

>>Diana Scultori Ghisi (1547-1612) (Diana Mantuana or Diana Mantovana): An engraver of Mantura and Rome, unique among women of the time in being permitted to put her name on her plates.

>>Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614): her father was the artist Prospero Fontana and it was in his workshop that she learned to paint. She found time to paint even though she became the mother of eleven! Her husband was the painter Zappi, and he also worked with her father. Her work was much in demand, including large-scale public commissions. She was official painter at the papal court for a time. After her father's death she moved to Rome where she was elected to the Roman Academy in recognition of her success. She painted portraits and also depicted religious and mythological themes.

A collection of essays plus a catalog of her work, from the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Lavinia Fontana of Bologna 1552-1614. (compare prices)

>>Barbara Longhi (1552-1638): Her father was Luca Longhi. She focused on religious themes, especially paintings depicting the Madonna and Child (12 of her known 15 works).

>>Marietta Robusti Tintoretto (La Tintoretta) (1560-1590): A Venetian, apprenticed to her father, the painter Jacobo Rubusti, known as Tintoretto, who was also a musician. She died at 30 in childbirth.

>>Fede Galizia (1578-1630): She was from Milan, the daughter of a miniature painter. She first came to notice by the age of 12. She also painted some portraits and religious scenes and was commissioned to do several altarpieces in Milan, but realistic still-life with fruit in a bowl is what she's most known for today.

>>Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653?): An Italian painter, her paintings often had Biblical themes. Critics still argue over whether she was a feminist. A 1988 movie on her life evoked controversy asking whether it distorted the facts of her life too much.

>>Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670): One of the first women to paint still life studies, her paintings were popular. She worked at the court of the Duke of Alcala, the court of the Duke of Savoy and in Florence where members of the Medici family were patrons. She was official court painter for the Grand Duke Ferdinando II.

Lorenza de'Medici, Giovanna Gorzoni. Florentines: Giovanna Garzoni 1600-1670. Reprint 1999. (compare prices)
Silvia Meloni Trkulja and Elena Fumagalli. Giovanna Garzoni: Still Lives/Geillleben/Natures Mortes. 2002 (compare prices)
Posters by Giovanna Garzoni (mislabeled as by "Giovanni" Garzoni). (compare prices)

>>Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665): Italian painter, she was also a musician and poet who focused on religious and historical scenes. She died at 27, possibly poisoned (her father thought so, but a court didn't agree).

>>Teresa del Po (1649-1716): A Roman artist taught by her father, her daughter also became a painter. She's best known for a few mythological scenes that survive and she also painted portraits.

>>Giovanna Fratellini (Marmocchini Cortesi) (1666-1731): Italian painter who trained with Livio Mehus and Pietro Dandini, then Ippolito Galantini, Domenico Tempesti and Anton Domenico Gabbiani. Many members of the Italian nobility commissioned portraits.

>>Rosalba Carriera (Charriera) (1675-1757):A Venice-born portrait artist who worked in pastel. She was elected to the Royal Academy in 1720.

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Milla Baldo-Ceolin
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Some Important Contributions:
This annotated short list of contributions was submitted upon request by Professor Baldo-Ceolin.


"Nuclear Interactions of Nuetral K-Mesons of Long Lifetime," Nuovo Cimento, 6:130 (1957), M. Baldo Ceolin et als.
The first experimental demonstration that KoL are a mixture of Ko and Kbaro states of S = ±1 strangeness, confirming the model proposed by Gellmann and Pais and the determination of the difference of mass KoS - KoL;


"Anti-Lambda Hyperon," Phys. Rev. Lett., 1:179 (1958), with D.J. Prowse.
The discovery of anti-matter endowed with strangeness (antilambda) in 1958.


"Experimental Test of the Selection Rule DeltaS = DeltaQ," Phys. Rev. Lett., 3:132 (1962), M. Baldo Ceolin et als.
The study of the systematic of decay in charged and neutral K mesons and the first determination of the behavior of these interactions with respect to space and time inversion and the exchange of particles with anti-particles (CP and CPT).


"Measurement of Muon-Neutrino and Antineutrino Scattering off Electrons," Phys. Rev. Lett., 41:213-216 (1978), M. Baldo Ceolin et als.
An initial confirmation of the unified theories of weak and electromagnetic interactions through the first systematic measurement of the process of neutral currents vµ(vbarµ) e¯ ----> vµ(vbarµ) e¯.


"Limit on ve ---> vT Oscillations from the NOMAD Experiment," Phys. Lett., B471:406-410.
Experiments aiming to discover possible oscillations between neutrinos of differing flavour in order to determine their mass.


"Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations," Proceedings of the "International Meeting on Astrophysics and Elementary Particles, Common Problems," Rome, Febuary 21-23, 1980, pp. 251-258, M. Baldo Ceolin et als.

"A New Experimental Limit on Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations," Zeit.für Physic C, C63:409-416, (1994), M. Baldo Ceolin et. als.
Research on the stability of matter carried out using original methods.

Honors:
1960 "Somaini" (Prize)
1963 "Mimosa d'oro" (Woman of the Year)
1976 "Feltrinelli" (Prize for Physics) dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
1978 Medaglia d'oro del Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione to "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura e dell'Arte"
1984 Award of S.I.F., for working in the field of weak interactions and getting outstanding physical results, in occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Fermi's Theory
1995 Medaglia d'oro del Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica to "Benemeriti della Scienza e della Cultura"
1997 Prize Societá Italiana di Fisica for her contributions to elementary particle physics on the occasion of the S.I.F. Io Centenary.


1966 Member of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
1977 Member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
1987 Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.


Jobs/Positions:
1952-1962 Research Fellow and Research Associate, Physics Department, University of Padova
1952-Present Research Associate, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (I.N.F.N.)
1958-1963 Professor of Physics, University of Padova
1963 Chair of Physics Department, University of Padova ( The first woman to have a professorship at the University of Padova.)
1963-1997 Professor of Advanced Physics, University of Padova
1965-1968 Director of Research, Physics Department, University of Padova
1965-1968 Member of the Council, I.N.F.N.
1973-1978 Director of the Physics Department, University of Padova
1998-Present Professor Emeritus, University of Padova

Education:
Laurea in Physics, University of Padova 1952
Libera Docenza, Rome 1958

Sources consulted:
Milla Baldo-Ceolin

Additional Information:
Milla Baldo-Ceolin has served on many committees and advisory boards, including the following:

HEPP, IUPAP, ECFA,
Editorial Board Nuovo Cimento, Acta Physica Austriaca and Zeitschrift für Physik C.
Organizer of the International Neutrino Telescopes Conferences since 1998 and editor of the Proceedings.
Organizer of the metting and editor of: "Galileo Scientist," His Years at Padua and Venice, Venice, March 13, 1992, pp. 1-140



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Women in love have more testosterone while men in love have less
06 May 2004


A group of Italian scientists carried out research on how love affects people. They examined 24 people, twelve men and twelve women. They had all fallen in love during the previous six months.

They found that testosterone levels in men and women who are in love reacts differently. The men had lower levels of testosterone than normal, while the women had higher levels.

Donatella Marazziti,
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one of the researchers, University of Pisa, Italy, said "Men, in some way, had become more like women, and women had become like men. It's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, because it's more important to survive at this stage.”

The expression ‘love is blind’ may not be that far off, actually.

Key circuitry in the brain can be affected by people in love, say researchers at the University College London. Certain circuits are suppressed when people are in love – for example, if you are in love the neural circuits that are normally associated with critical social assessment of other people are subdued.

This may explain, say the scientists in this study, why people in love are often blind to the faults in the person they adore.

Love can also have more bizarre effects on the brain.

Chemicals in the brain change, according to another study carried out in Italy five years ago. According to that study, your serotonin levels go down when you are in love. The scientists found that serotonin levels of people in love are as low as people with obsessive compulsive disorders. This may explain why people who are passionately in love cannot be away from each other for long.

Some experts are even saying that all this research could take us one step closer to providing treatment for people who have relationship problems – especially problems with bonding during the critical stages of courtship.

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Maria Dalle Donne (1778-1842): Dalle Donne was born to a peasant family in a small village on the outskirts of Bologna. Her talents were recognized early, and she was encouraged to study medicine. In 1799, she presented her dissertation and took the examination that made her the first female doctorate in medicine. She passed the examination with highest honors (maxima cum laude). In 1800, Dalle Donne published three important scientific papers. The first paper, on anatomy and physiology, was a review and commentary on work previously done on female reproduction and fertility, fetal malformations, and blood circulation in the uterus. The second paper suggested for the first time that diseases be classified on the basis of symptoms. The third paper focused on midwifery and the care of newborns. In 1829, Dalle Donne became only the second woman, after Laura Bassi, to become a member of the prestigious Ordine de Benedettini Academici Pensionati, in which she was awarded the title of "Academic". In 1832, Dalle Donne became Director of the Department of Midwifery at the University of Bologna.