- Vittoria Aganoor
Vittoria Aganoor (
Padova ,1855-Perugia , 1910) was an Italian poet withArmenia n ancestry.She was the 7th child of
Edoardo Aganoor andGiuseppina Pacini , lots of Italian celebrities, such asAndrea Maffei orAntonio Fogazzaro , visited their home when she was a child.In 1876 she went living to
Naples , where she metEnrico Nencioni , who helped her with her poetry, although she wrote letters more often toDomenico Gnoli .She was very emotionally dependent to her family because of her depressive temper and although she was a precocious writer, she published her first book in 1900, "Leggenda eterna".
In 1901, she married to
Guido Pompilj and went toPerugia .She died from
cancer on9 April 1910 . Thanks to her husband, she became very famous after her death.
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