[1][2] She was educated in Venezuela, the United States and France,[1] and studied piano and violin with renowned instructors like Ramón Delgado Palacios.

She performed abroad at both private and public concerts, returning in 1909 to Venezuela and marrying the pioneering dermatologist, Manuel Pérez Díaz (1872–1931),[2] with whom she had eight children.

[1] Luciani began her career writing historical and feminist articles, literary critiques and essays for journals[1] and newspapers[3] She published several short stories,[4] and in 1919, she published her first book, La batalla de Boyacá: su importancia militar y política,[5] which won the award of the Academy of History of Venezuela in the early 1920s.

[4] Doris Stevens, who had suggested the commission to investigate the disparity of laws effecting women throughout the Americas, was appointed as chair and the other six countries were selected by lot.

Besides her travel and research work with the CIM,[3] Luciani attended the International Congress of the Union of Catholic Women held in Santiago, Chile in 1936.