The Grandi home became a gathering place for anarchists and provided shelter to militants such as P. Gori and Vivaldo Lacchini.
[1][2] Sometime in the 1890s, she met and fell in love with Giuseppe Ciancabilla, a fellow anarchist and a friend of Errico Malatesta.
During her stay in the area she befriended and influenced the young anarchist Ernestina Cravello and joined the Teatro Sociale, a theater group that staged plays about women's emancipation.
[5] The couple moved to Chicago, then San Francisco, where they were closely monitored by the Italian authorities.
She moved frequently, living at various times in Philadelphia, New York, Vancouver, and San Francisco.