Carolina Luzzatto

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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)

Carolina Luzzatto (née: Sabbadini; 1837–1919) was a journalist and writer from Austria-Hungary. 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]

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. ^ a b c d e "Carolina Luzzatto House". Let's go Gorizia. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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  3. ^ a b c d e f Maddalena Del Bianco. "Luzzatto Coen Carolina (1837–1919). Giornalista e Patriota" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico dei Friulani. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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  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.