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unification of Italy in pink

The history of the Unification of Italy was written by men. The great characters of these 150 years of fighting, war and unification Carlo Alberto, Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo Benso di Cavour and Garibaldi, but also Turati, Mussolini, Matteotti, De Gasperi and Togliatti, all wearing pants. Yet next to them was a silent and tireless army of patriots in petticoats who participated in an active, though mostly in anonymity and silence in the construction of the nation, from his unit to this day.

To name a few are the patriots of Belgaum and Rosa Cristina Montmasson, Anita Garibaldi, Maria Montessori, Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Anna Kuliscioff, Edda Ciano, Palma Bucarelli and, more recently, Tina Anselmi, Nilde Jotti, Merini Alda, Rita Levi Montalcini, Oriana Fallaci, Ilaria Alpi Women who through their work and their skills are the icons of the unification of Italy ... in pink. Behind these famous women but there is a chorus of extraordinary female figures: for example, mothers and girls, armed with needle and thread, they stitched the tricolor flags, and those who attend in person to the actions the front line dressed up as men. There are Those who simply were mothers, wives or daughters of men engaged in the forefront. Women who were still reluctant to make visible their presence and their contribution, and to which the country has recognized the right to vote only at the end of World War II. Those who have managed to assert their presence has caused a scandal: for example, happened to Matilda Serao, journalist and writer, first woman to found and run a newspaper. Anna Kuliscioff promoted, however, some laws in favor of work, Maria Montessori revolutionized the system of elementary education and Grazia Deledda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. And among the more recent female icons, the scientist Rita Levi Montalcini, the journalist Oriana Fallaci, who through his books and reports said the last decades of world history, Ilaria Alpi, or who has paid with his life for his determination in the service of journalism. To all of them and certain other women who, with their strength and their tireless work discreetly and have contributed to the soil, solid and fertile on which it has developed the Italian culture, devotes an exhibition Women of Pisa Italy. The middle unit is scheduled to Blu Palazzo di Pisa, which tells the story of our country lived through the voices and stories of his feminine side. The initiative, which bears the official symbol of the national celebrations of the event is open to free admission to the June 26.