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14 Facts About Carolina Luzzatto

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Carolina Luzzatto was a journalist and writer from Austria-Hungary.

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Carolina Luzzatto was one of the early female newspaper directors in Italy and was part of the irredentist liberal-national journalists of the period.

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Carolina Luzzatto was born in Trieste on 29 November 1837 to the Sabbadini family of Jewish religion and of Sephardic origin.

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Carolina Luzzatto was the eldest daughter of Isach Sabbadini and Stellina Estella Norsa, originally from Mantua.

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Carolina Luzzatto was educated by Marco Tedeschi who was her relative and the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Trieste.

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Carolina Luzzatto married Girolamo Luzzatto Coen in 1856 and moved to Gorizia.

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Carolina Luzzatto started her literary career in 1868 by publishing children's books and continued her activity until 1875.

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Carolina Luzzatto directed the newspaper L'Isonzo from 1878 to 1880 and became the director of the newspapers Il Raccoglitore and L'Imparziale in 1880.

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Carolina Luzzatto was the director of the newspaper Il Corriere di Gorizia between 1883 and 1889 and of the newspaper Il Corriere Friulano between 1901 and 1914.

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Carolina Luzzatto worked for different publication as their correspondent in Gorizia, including Il Piccolo, Patria del Friuli and Le Pagine Friulane.

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In 1915 Luzzatto was arrested at age 78 due to her commitment to the irredentist cause.

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Carolina Luzzatto jailed in the Gollersdorf and then in Ober Hollabrunn.

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Carolina Luzzatto died on 24 January 1919 in Gorizia shortly after she was released from the prison.

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Carolina Luzzatto was buried at the Valdirose cemetery in the Nova Gorica suburb of Rozna Dolina.