1. Ada Negri was the only woman to be admitted to the Academy of Italy.
15 Facts About Ada Negri
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Ada Negri was born in Lodi, Italy on 3 February 1870.
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Ada Negri's father, Giuseppe Negri, was a coachman, and her mother, Vittoria Cornalba, was a weaver.
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Ada Negri attended Lodi's normal school for girls and earned an elementary teacher's diploma.
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Ada Negri was encouraged to continue her education by her teacher Paolo Tedeschi, who recognized her precocity and talent.
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On 28 March 1896, she married industrialist Giovanni Garlanda of Biella, who had fallen in love with Ada Negri after reading her poetry.
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In 1913, Ada Negri separated from her husband and moved to Switzerland to live in Zurich with Bianca.
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Ada Negri remained in Zurich until the outbreak of the First World War, after which she returned to Italy.
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Ada Negri was a frequent visitor to Laglio on Lake Como, where she wrote her only novel, an autobiographical work titled Stella Mattutina.
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In March 1923, Ada Negri began an extended stay on the island Capri, where she wrote I canti dell'isola.
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In 1940, Ada Negri was admitted as the first female member of the Italian Academy.
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Ada Negri was one of the contributors of Lidel, a nationalist women's magazine published between 1919 and 1935.
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Ada Negri's work was widely translated during her lifetime, with individual poems published in newspapers in the US and elsewhere.
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Ada Negri fell out of favor after her marriage to Garlande, which was seen as a political betrayal.
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The actress Paola Pezzaglia, a personal friend of Ada Negri, was an interpreter of her poetry on stage.