Laura Solera Mantegazza

Laura Solera Mantegazza (ca. 1865)

Laura Solera Mantegazza (15 January 1813 – 15 September 1873) was an Italian patriot, philanthropist and fundraiser, among the most important female leading figures of Risorgimento. For her motherhood model and her commitment to the education of poor people her contemporaries called her "mother of all the poor".[1]

  1. ^ Mantegazza, Paolo (1876). La mia mamma (in Italian). Milan: Tip. frat. Rechiedei. p. 42.