page_title: Giulietta Pezzi
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Giulietta Pezzi / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Giuseppe Mazzini nel 1846
context_page_description: Giulietta Pezzi was an Italian writer and journalist whose work included poetry, four novels, and a five-act play. Born and educated in Milan, she was a devoted follower of Mazzini and active in the Italian republican and unification movements. In her later years she wrote for several newspapers and dedicated herself to the establishment of free public schools in Italy based on Mazzini's educational philosophy. She died in the city of her birth at the age of 71. During her lifetime several art songs were dedicated to her, including Bellini's "Vaga luna, che inargenti".
context_section_description: Giulietta Pezzi died at her home in Milan in 1878 at the age of 71. Her tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano is adorned with a marble portrait by Giovanni Spertini and an epitaph written by her daughter Noemi. In 1880 Noemi supervised the posthumous publication of Pezzi's last novel Il nido delle rondini (The Swallows' Nest). An account of a group of Italian political exiles in Switzerland, the novel was based on Pezzi's experiences at the villa in Lugano where she often visited Mazzini during his exile. Her personal papers, which included extensive correspondence with Mazzini and Cattaneo, an album with messages from Alessandro Manzoni and Honoré de Balzac, a letter from Giuseppe Garibaldi, and portraits of George Sand and Giuseppe Verdi, were held in the Museo del Risorgimento di Milano from 1928. However, they were completely destroyed when the museum caught fire during the Allied bombing of Milan in 1943. A public nursery school and street in Milan are named in her honour.
caption: Giuseppe Mazzini in 1846. Pezzi dedicated her  play Carlo Sand to him in two years later.
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