Background
A daughter of count Bacinetti of Ravenna, she had a literary education and devoted herself to reading philosophical works, becoming the female ideal of an educated woman of the time and a witty hostess of cultural gatherings and salons.
linguist philosopher translator salon-holder
A daughter of count Bacinetti of Ravenna, she had a literary education and devoted herself to reading philosophical works, becoming the female ideal of an educated woman of the time and a witty hostess of cultural gatherings and salons.
She was one of the first female students, studying natural sciences at the University of Perugia in the first half of the 19th century. She translated Leibniz"s Monadology into Italian and also promoted the spread of works by Kant, Spinoza and Schelling in Italian. He always sought her advice, even in government matters, and 3,000 of her letters to him (along with 1,500 of his replies) survive. in 1819, to marchese Ettore Florenzi in Perugia.
Politically she supported Italy"s national-movement and in 1850 published Some reflections on socialism and communism, which (like many of her other works) ended up on the church"s Index Librorum Prohibitorum.