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Piove di Ada Negri Posted by on Nov 27, 2012

Poet and writer, Ada Negri was born in Lodi (Lombardia) in 1870. Her father, a coachman, died when she was only one year old, and her mother worked as a weaver in a factory. Ada recounts in her autobiography “Stella Mattutina”  (Morning Star), published in 1921, how she spent many years of her lonely childhood…

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