Bertieril, stampa al platino

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Paola Lombroso Carrara, Turin, late 19th century.

Bertieril, platinotype on cardboard.
Born in 1871 in Pavia, rebellious and liberal since she was a teenager, Paola was the eldest daughter of Cesare Lombroso.
In 1989 she married a student of her father, forensic pathologist Mario Carrara, one of the few university professors who refused to swear allegiance to fascism.
Paola began her career as a journalist, she collaborated with the socialist press and was sentenced to three and a half months in prison, then commuted to a fine, for promoting hate between social classes.
Pedagogist and writer, she created in Turin the Casa del sole (House of the Sun) and the Bibliotechine rurali (Rural Libraries), two socio-cultural projects for children. She also contributed to the birth of the Corriere dei Piccoli (one of the first journals for children) and under the pseudonym of Zia Mariù (Aunty Mariù) she was the editor of the column la Corrispondenza.

She died in 1954.