Angeliki Palli

Angeliki Palli (1798 – 1875) was a Greek-Italian writer, translator and early feminist.

The daughter of a rich Greek merchant, she was born in Livorno, Tuscany and grew up in the Greek community there. She spoke Greek, French and Italian. Palli wrote tragedies, dramas, short stories, romantic novels and poems. In 1851, she published a feminist essay targeted at young mothers Discorso di una donna alle giovani maritote del suo paese. One of the themes in her work was the Greek struggle for independence from the Turks. She married the Italian politician Giampaolo Bartolomei.

Palli translated works by William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo and by French and Greek poets into Italian.

Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time including Ugo Foscolo, Lord Byron, Alessandro Manzoni, Andreas Kalvos, Alphonse de Lamartine, Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Giuseppe Mazzini and Firmin Didot.