Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti

In 1870, she married the politician Count Venceslao Spalleti Trivelli with whom she had five children, three of whom survived: Carolina (1873–1940, Giambattista (1890–1967) and Cesare (1892–1967).

[1][2] After moving to Rome with her husband and family in 1894, Rasponi Spalletti became a board member of the Italian Red Cross and joined the Associazione per la donna (Association for Women), where she was responsible for medical supplies, fund raising and membership.

Not only did it revive interest in local arts and crafts, it also developed into a thriving cooperative with hundred of embroiderers.

[1] In Rome, she became an active salonière, inviting writers, philosophers, journalists and politicians to their home opposite the Quirinal Palace.

[1] While the 1908 National Congress of Italian Women in Rome attracted over a thousand participants, a proposal to abolish religion in schools by the socialist Linda Malnati, supported by Rasponi Spalletti, caused the Catholics to leave and establish the Unione fra le donne cattoliche d’Italia (Union of the Catholic Women of Italy).