Laura Beatrice Mancini

Laura Beatrice Mancini (January 17, 1821[1] – July 17, 1869), born Laura Beatrice Oliva, was an Italian poet.

Laura Beatrice Mancini (ca. 1860)

Laura Oliva was born in Naples, and in 1840 married Italian jurist and statesman Pasquale Stanislao Mancini.[2] She wrote a variety of poetry, and ran a literary salon for liberal-minded Neapolitans from the 1840s.[3] Many of her poems focused on contemporary political events (see Italian unification), especially after 1860.[2]

Works
  • Ines (1845)
  • Colombo al convento della Rabida (1846)
  • Poesie varie (1848)
  • L'Italia sulla tomba di Vincenzo Gioberti (1853)
  • Patria ed amore (1874)

References
  1. (in Italian) Francesco de Sanctis, Nino Cortese, Opere complete, A. Morano, 1930, pag. 422
  2. "Mancini". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 11 (4th ed.). 1890. p. 178.
  3. Maria Malatesta (2002). Society and the Professions in Italy, 1860-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 79. ISBN 0-521-89383-6.
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