Career
She earned a law degree and taught as an assistant professor at Genoa University and then as professor of navigation law at Parma University. She worked in Italian Justice Department at Reform Office from 1973 - 1975 as a consultant and continued her career as a lawyer She was particularly famous as for her work on cases involving women"s rights.
In 1983, she was the Italian delegate at the World Conference for Peace in Prague.
She was also one of the founders of "Telefono Rosa" (in English "Pink Telephone"), an association that assists female victims of brutality. In 1993, for Radiotelevisione Italiana, she wrote the scenography for the television production "L"avvocato delle donne" ("The Women"s Lawyer"), starring actress Mariangela Melato.
She then wrote of book of the same title. From 1998 until her death, she was an arbitration judge on the television show "Forum" on Mediaset Rete 4.
She also hosted a Talk show "Tina-mite", on the Italian television network "Odeon".
In 2006, she was named Honorary Provost of the Popular University of Milan. She died in Rome in a private hospital after a long illness two days following her 82nd birthday.