Laura Beatrice Mancini

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Laura Beatrice Mancini (ca. 1860)

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

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. (Italian) Francesco de Sanctis, Nino Cortese, Opere complete, A. Morano, 1930, pag. 422
  2. 2.0 2.1 (German) "Mancini". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 11 (4th edition 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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