Angeliki Palli

Angelica Palli (1798 – 1875) was an Italian writer of Greek ancestry, translator and early feminist.

[2] In 1851, she published a feminist essay targeted at young mothers Discorso di una donna alle giovani maritote del suo paese.

Coming from a wealthy family, she studied with well-known tutors in the Leghorn environment such as De Coureil, and began improvising verses from adolescence.

Palli translated works of William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo and of French and Greek poets into Italian.

[2] Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time including Ugo Foscolo, Lord Byron, Alessandro Manzoni, Andreas Kalvos, Alphonse de Lamartine, Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Giuseppe Mazzini and Firmin Didot.