Elena Gianini Belotti | |
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![]() Belotti in 2010 | |
Born | |
Died | 24 December 2022 Rome, Italy | (aged 93)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Writer Teacher Activist |
Elena Gianini Belotti (2 December 1929 – 24 December 2022) was an Italian writer, teacher, and activist.
Born in Rome on 2 December 1929, Belotti first worked in the field of childcare. In 1960, she became director of the Centro Nascita Montessori, which she directed until 1980. In 1973, she published the book Dalla parte delle bambine for Feltrinelli , which covered the early conditioning of women. In 1980, she published Prima le donne e i bambini for Rizzoli, again on the subject of gender conditioning.
In Pimpì oselì, she outlined life of children in Bergamo and Rome in Fascist Italy, emphasizing the harshness of poverty and gender separation. In 2003, she wrote the novel Prima della quiete, in which she told the tragic story of Italia Donati . [1] In 2007, Loredana Lipperini published Ancora dalla parte delle bambine, an update of the themes of conditioning of women covered by Belotti thirty-five years earlier.
Gianini Belotti died in Rome on 24 December 2022, at the age of 93. [2]