Laura Mancinelli OMRI (18 December 1933 – 7 July 2016) was an Italian writer, Germanist, medievalist and university professor.
[1] Mancinelli also wrote academic texts, children's books, essays (numerous of medieval history), and novels.
[2] Laura Mancinelli was born in Udine in 1933, then, after a period of short stays between Rovereto and Mantua where she spent her early childhood, in 1937 the family moved permanently to Turin.
After returning to Turin as holder of the University Chair of Germanic philology, in 1981 Laura Mancinelli made her debut in fiction, publishing, The Twelve Abbots of Challant (winner the same year of the Mondello Prize[9]), a historical novel that the author had begun to write in 1968.
It recounts the handover of the Fortress of Exilles from France (Dauphiné) to Savoy, which took place after a night of revelry by the French garrison in 1708.