1. Carla Voltolina, later Carla Pertini, was a journalist, Italian partisan, and psychotherapist.
17 Facts About Carla Voltolina
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Carla Voltolina undertook investigations into prostitution in Italy and provided therapy at hospitals and addiction-treatment clinics across Italy.
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Carla Voltolina was the daughter of Luigi, an official of the Italian army from Chioggia, and Rosa Barberis, from Piova Massaia.
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Carla Voltolina had two sisters, Laura and Luisa, and one brother, Umberto, who was born in 1940.
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When Voltolina was six, her father signed her up for swimming and she won several trophies by competing with the youth division of Juventus.
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Carla Voltolina later completed evening courses and took additional examinations to enter Bocconi University.
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Carla Voltolina joined the Ordine dei giornalisti in 1945 and collaborated with Il Lavoro of Genoa and the periodical Noi Donne.
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So, at 51 years of age, Carla Voltolina decided to resume her university studies that had been interrupted by the war.
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Carla Voltolina received high honors in political science from the Istituto "Cesare Alfieri" di Firenze, with a thesis on homes for the elderly.
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Carla Voltolina was active in the Servizio farmacodipendenza e alcolismo at the Policlinico Gemelli of Rome, the Monteverde hospital, and the diagnostic and psychiatric services of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.
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Carla Voltolina was subscribed to the military district of Rome as a "decorated combatant with the Croce di guerra" for her assignment in the Resistance.
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The vice president of the Fondazione Pertini, Piero Pierri, said that Carla Voltolina was never opposed to the friendship between her husband and the Pope.
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In 1993, for personal reasons, Carla Voltolina blocked the broadcast of the TV film Se ci sara un giorno produced by Sandro Parenzo and directed by Franco Rossi for RaiDue.
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The role of Pertini had been entrusted to Maurizio Crozza, while Carla Voltolina Signoris played Matilde Ferrari, the young fiance who remained at home while Pertini fled to France and waited for 18 years before giving him up.
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Carla Voltolina said that the love story with Matilde was not true, that it disgraced the figure of the President.
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Carla Voltolina was an unusual person, she even involved the Quirinal [the president].
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Carla Voltolina collected the materials on her and her husband that created the Fondazione Pertini, of which she was president between 1995 and 2002.