Louisa Battistati

Louisa Battistati was an Italian woman who became notable as one of the defenders of Milan during the "Five Days" revolution of 1848.

She was born in Stradella, Piedmont, and worked as a mantua maker at Milan.

On March 10 1848, she had disarmed a cavalry soldier, though he carried a carbine. She placed herself at the head of the Poppietti bridge, and steadily continued there. She defended the large establishment at Vettabia, which contained 580 persons, being the edifice in which the widows and their children, and other females took refuge when Barbaressa stormed Milan. This young woman was, in 1850, married, and doing duty in the civic guard.

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