Amelia Pincherle Rosselli

Amelia Pincherle Rosselli was an accomplished writer known primarily as a playwright. She is remembered throughout Italy as the mother of anti-fascist activists, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Her first drama, Anima, won a national prize from the Italian state and was performed in Turin on October 29, 1898. Rosselli successfully continued to write for the stage, both in Italian and in the Venetian dialect of her native city. She also published short stories, books for children and translations from French literature.