24 Facts About Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was an Italian philanthropist, educational patron and activist.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was a supporter of the Italian educator Maria Montessori and persuaded Margherita of Savoy, queen of Italy, to become a patron of her schools.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti worked on reforms of teacher training, attempted to establish secondary schools for girls, and pressed the government to offer agricultural education.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti continued her activism for women, children, and education in Buenos Aires, where she died in 1959.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti's letters are valuable in understanding the political currents of Italy during her lifetime.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti Giolitti was born in 1871 in Florence, Italy, to Rosa and Giovanni Giolitti.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti taught his children to be independent and to follow their own consciences, but emphasized loyalty to Italy and family.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti worked for the national railway department on the construction of the Genoa and Riviera tramways and was elected as a radical politician in 1909, serving through 1919.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was an ardent supporter of the Italian educator Maria Montessori.

In 1910, Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was appointed as the temporary superintendent of the, when the director resigned.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti founded the that same year, which provided educational opportunities for mothers and children, as well as a nurse's training curricula.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti worked on creating an asylum for orphans, and assisted in the creation of the floating school Caracciolo in Naples, replicating projects on the ships Garaventa in Genoa and Scilla in Venice.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti met with Pasquali Leonardi Cattolica, Minister of the Navy, and first proposed that an asylum ship should be created for this purpose.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti recommended that the school should be under the direction of Giulia Civita.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti's duties included organizing local committees to promote and manage charitable donations for the to benefit the school ships Caracciolo and Scilla and the Vittorio Emanuele II Orphanage in Porto d'Anzio, which served fishermen's orphaned children.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti presented a separate report, which although it supported the teaching program in general, recommended making it less didactic and more oriented towards a broader group of students including women, as well as middle- and working-class pupils.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti expanded the idea to include garden cities, writing to Alfredo Frassati in 1921, of the benefits of raising children in the countryside.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was one of the founders and a board member of the in 1923.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was a committed women's rights activist, and a member of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Donne Italiane.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti was elected as a vice president of the CNDI's, along with Maria Lisa Danieli-Camozzi, Carolina Amari, and Beatrice Berio.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti participated in the 1908 first suffrage congress held in Rome, presenting a paper on emigration to Brazil.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti continued her work in social and educational activism in Argentina.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti died on 17 April 1959, in Martinez, Buenos Aires.

Enrichetta Chiaraviglio-Giolitti's correspondence was used extensively by Luciana Frassati in creating the three-volume biography of Frassati's father, Alfredo Frassati in the History and Historiography of Modern Italy, who was a friend of Giovanni and correspondent with Chiaraviglio-Giolitti.