# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franca-viola
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:05:42.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franca-viola"
name: "Franca Viola"
slug: "franca-viola"
description: "Franca Viola is a Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a \"rehabilitating marriage\" to her rapist after being kidnapped, held hostage for over one week, and raped frequently. She is considered to be the first Italian woman who had been raped to publicly refuse marriage, as she and her family instead successfully prosecuted the rapist. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's choice clashed with traditional social conventions in Southern Italy, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she refused to marry the man to whom she had lost her virginity. Franca Viola became a symbol of the cultural progress and emancipation of women in post-war Italy."
tagline: "Italian activist against woman violence"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franca_Viola_-_1970.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1948-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.5
  momentum:             2.959192785070096
  historical:           20.51160266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 98
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "فرنكا فيولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "فرانکا ویولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Franca Viola"
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    title: "Виола, Франка"
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    title: "Франка Віола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump