Claim: Cristina Higgins authored a personal account about the spread of COVID-19 in Italy. 
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Maria Cristina Giongo
text: of the jubilee year of mercy. Maria Cristina Giongo Maria Cristina Giongo (born Milan, 5 May 1951), is an Italian journalist and author. She lives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where she works as a correspondent for Italian magazines. From 1976 until 1981 she presented a thousand broadcasts of a daily live-program for consumers, partly dedicated to interviews with well-known persons in politics, public health service, daily topics, fashion and beauty. She won a television prize for this program ('premio onda tivu'), in the category Actuality and talkshow. In 1997 she made a documentary about the use of drugs in the

title: Maria Cristina Giongo
text: Maria Cristina Giongo Maria Cristina Giongo (born Milan, 5 May 1951), is an Italian journalist and author. She lives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where she works as a correspondent for Italian magazines. From 1976 until 1981 she presented a thousand broadcasts of a daily live-program for consumers, partly dedicated to interviews with well-known persons in politics, public health service, daily topics, fashion and beauty. She won a television prize for this program ('premio onda tivu'), in the category Actuality and talkshow. In 1997 she made a documentary about the use of drugs in the Netherlands with a team of the

title: Cristina Acidini
text: culture. Acidini was one of the experts who attributed the to Michelangelo. After the work was purchased by Italy, she was sued for negligence in 2012 but was later found not liable. Cristina Acidini Cristina Acidini (born 15 May 1951) is an Italian writer and art historian. Her name also appears as Cristina Acidini Luchinat. She was born in Florence. She received a BA from the University of Florence in 1977. In 1991, she was visiting professor at State University of New York at Plattsburgh. In 1997, she received an Eisenhower Fellowship and visited more than 70 museums in the

title: Franca Sozzani
text: she worked with the AIDS organisation Convivo and from March 2013 she was the president of the European Institute of Oncology Foundation. Sozzani had one son, Francesco Carrozzini (born 1982), a photographer and director. Her sister, Carla Sozzani, is the owner of 10 Corso Como, a Milan photography gallery and store. Sozzani's niece, Sara Maino, is an editor at "Italian Vogue". Franca Sozzani Franca Sozzani (; 20 January 1950 – 22 December 2016) was an Italian journalist and the editor-in-chief of "Vogue Italia" from 1988 until her death in 2016. Sozzani was born and grew up in Mantua, Lombardy, northern

title: Isabella Santacroce
text: Isabella Santacroce Isabella Santacroce (born April 30, 1970 in Riccione) is an Italian novelist. Isabella Santacroce was born and lives in Riccione. Her literary startup began in the 1990s with her debut novel "Fluo", the first book of the trilogy "Trilogia dello spavento" (trilogy of the frightened) (the other two are "Destroy" and "Luminal"). "Destroy" in particular is of interest in Italy, described by Alessandro Baricco as a ""book to read, if Enrico Brizzi is talented, there is double talent in the book"". Santacroce was grouped together with the "Giovani Cannibali", (young Cannibals) a literary movement developed at the end

title: Emma Baeri
text: of manifestos from the women's political movement in Italy. From this experience was born the book "Riguardarsi: Manifesti del Movimento Politico delle Donne in Italia". Baeri's publications include: In 2012, in a limited, not-for-sale edition, she published "Isola mobile: nipoti, gatti, scritti," a "bookish object," as the author calls it, that gathers scattered texts published and unpublished, fragments of memoir, poetic words, and photographs illustrating her three great passions: collages, patchworks, and cats. In 2013 she published "Dividua", whose back cover reads: Baeri is married and has two daughters, Maria Carla and Paola; three grandchildren, Gabriele, Lorenzo, and Anna; and

title: Girlfriend in a Coma (film)
text: a widely followed tweet and then an interview with The Guardian, Bill Emmott accused the Italian government of censorship. Stefano Corradino, director of the website "Articolo21" (a reference to the Italian Constitution article on freedom of thought), launched a petition asking Giovanna Melandri to reconsider her decision. More than 30,000 people signed the petition. But the MAXXI decision was not reversed and the film’s premiere in Italy instead took place at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome on 13 February 2013, hosted at short notice by L’Espresso magazine. The documentary has now become the centre of a social media campaign, connecting

title: Christine Maggiore
text: was harmless, Maggiore had not taken medication to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV to her daughter during pregnancy, and she did not have Eliza Jane tested for HIV during her daughter's lifetime. Maggiore herself died on December 27, 2008 after suffering from AIDS-related conditions. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Maggiore grew up in Southern California. After graduating with honors from Reseda High School, she worked in advertising and marketing in Los Angeles, California until 1984. She traveled through Europe and North Africa in 1984 before settling in Florence, Italy, where she lived from 1985 to 1987. In the late

title: Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso
text: where she published an account of the republic and its fall in the French magazine "Le National" in 1850. She bought land in the remote Ciaq-Maq-Oglou area and then traveled to Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Cristina published accounts of her experiences in the orient and found the condition of women there particularly disturbing. She published "Of Women's Condition and of their Future" (1866) in which she argues that deprived of education, women come to accept the oppressive conditions in which they find themselves. She lived in exile in Turkey for eight years before returning to Italy in 1856 and working

title: Annalisa Piras
text: Lyon, France. Piras was the London Correspondent for "L'Espresso" from 1997 to 2011 and for La7 TV for six years. From 2006 to 2007 Annalisa was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association. In 2008, Piras' BBC Radio 4 documentary "The Italian Patient" was shortlisted as the FPA Best Story of the Year by a UK-based foreign correspondent. Her TV documentary on the Hutton Enquiry, written and directed for La7 TV, was shortlisted for the same award in 2003. In 2011 and 2012 Piras produced, co-wrote and directed the first independent feature documentary on Italy seen from

title: Dolores Turchi
text: Dolores Turchi Dolores Turchi (Oliena, 1935) is an Italian writer. Born in Oliena from a Tuscan family, Dolores Turchi was a primary school teacher. She wrote several publications about traditions and culture in Sardinia. Since 1989 to 1991 she was director of the magazine "Sardigna Antiga" ("Old Sardinia" in English), since 1992 to 1995 of the magazine "Sardegna Antica – culture mediterranee" ("Old Sardinia - Mediterranean cultures" in English). Lately, she founded the magazine "Sardegna Mediterranea" ("Mediterranean Sardinia" in English). In 2003 she founded the publishing company Iris. She has been organizer of congress about Sardinian linguistics, she taught in

title: Corrado Fumagalli
text: on satellite. In 2008 he opened 18vm.tv, the first erotic web tv in Italy and in 2010, he developed the idea of creating a free thematic TV channel devoted exclusively to the Internazionale Milano team on digital terrestrial television: InterTV. Fumagalli assumes the role of director with Andrea Bosio as Deputy Director. The broadcasts start officially on September 10. In December 2012, he released his autobiographical book "Alla Grande!". Corrado Fumagalli Corrado Fumagalli (born in Cassano d'Adda, Italy July 27, 1967) is an Italian television presenter. From 1984 until 1993 he began to djing for various italian radio stations. Before

title: Lives of the Saints
text: "whore" who is sleeping around while her husband, Mario, is working and sending her money from America. Cristina has become pregnant and Vittorio, her 7-year-old son, remains oblivious to the entirety of the situation until much later in his life. Cristina's scrutiny leads to the isolation of the Innocente family: her father resigns as mayor and Vittorio is bullied; not to mention, Mario was informed of Cristina's pregnancy. The townspeople's ruthless treatment leads Cristina to leave the town of Valle del Sole with Vittorio.The townspeople assume it is to meet with Mario, but hinted that Cristina had actually made plans

title: Maria Grazia Cutuli
text: and graduated from the University of Catania. She took up residence in Milan by 1990. Maria Grazia Cutuli worked as a journalist for over 11 years. She first worked for the newspaper "La Sicilia", at first writing theater reviews, and in local broadcast news. She wrote for magazines, such as "Epoca" and "Panorama". She traveled to Israel, Cambodia, Sudan, Rwanda and South Africa and wrote freelance articles to build her credentials as a foreign correspondent. She worked for "Corriere della Sera" since 1997. After her murder in Afghanistan, she was elevated to "Special Correspondent" by "Corriere della Sera". Maria Grazia

title: Michèle de Saint Laurent
text: transmit schistosomiasis (also known as "bilharzia" or "snail fever"). The resulting paper brought her into contact with staff at the ' in Paris, where Jacques Forest suggested she study the larvae of hermit crabs. From 1955 until 1960, she worked at the ' (CNRS), at their laboratory at Banyuls-sur-Mer; thereafter, she returned to the Paris museum. In 1965, Michèle divorced, and returned to using her maiden name. She retired on October 1, 1992, and split her time between her continued research activities and spending time at a house in Brittany. She had suffered for years from hepatitis C and contracted

title: Caterina Klusemann
text: transmitted on Arte and in South America, the US (TV5Monde, Eurochannel), the Netherlands, Poland, or Sweden. She has also written and directed a feature length children's film. Caterina Klusemann Caterina Klusemann (born 8 February 1973 in Lucca, Italy) is an independent filmmaker and documentarist. Born in 1973 in Italy to the German painter Georg Klusemann and the Venezuelan sociologist and photographer Elena Hochmann-Klusemann, she grew up in Germany and Venezuela. After completing school in French Switzerland, she went on to study neurobiology in Basel, where she co-authored a frequently cited article on the blood–brain barrier. From 1996 to 2001, she

title: Cristina Campo
text: ' and ', and also started the column "Posta letteraria" in "Corriere dell'Adda" with . She began translating works by Simone Weil into Italian. In 1955, she moved to Rome which marked a major change in her life. In 1956, she published a poetry collection "Passo d'addio". From 1956 to 1961, she wrote a number of scripts for the Italian national radio system RAI. She also translated works by William Carlos Williams and John Donne into Italian. In Rome, she met Elémire Zolla. He introduced her to Eastern philosophies and mysticism. They both were members of the group "La voce",

title: HIV/AIDS Public Health Campaigns in Italy
text: go looking for it, catch AIDS”. When Italy’s Minister of Health changed from Donat Cattin to Francesco De Lorenzo in mid 1989, the official attitudes of the Ministry towards the HIV/AIDS epidemic changed as well. A new series of public health commercials for television were produced. These commercials provided the Italian public with clear and direct information about the prevention of transmission of HIV. A particular commercial shows a man and woman moving around each other, while a narrator explains that HIV/AIDS is not transmitted by kissing, shaking hands or sharing silverware. The narrator continues to say that the infection

title: Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso
text: 1848 Italian revolutions, she organized and financed a troop of soldiers and fought in the Milanese uprising against the Austrians for Italy's independence. After the insurrection failed, she returned to Paris and published articles in the influential magazine "Revue des Deux Mondes" describing the struggle in Italy. In 1849 she returned to Italy to support the Roman Republic formed in the Papal States by Mazzini and others. She became a hospital director during the brief life of the republic until it was suppressed by French troops. Cristina fled, accompanied by her daughter, first to Malta and then to Constantinople, from

title: Ilaria Capua
text: Ilaria Capua Ilaria Capua (Rome, April 21, 1966) is a virologist and former Italian politician, best known for her research on influenza viruses, particularly avian influenza, and her efforts promoting open access to genetic information on emerging viruses as part of pre-pandemic preparedness efforts. Dr. Capua is currently a full professor with Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS), and has a joint appointment with the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, U.S. She was recruited as a pre-eminent professor to direct and lead the