Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, also known as GAC, was an Italian artist and art collector. After his initial activity as a painter, in the 1940s and 1950s, he became one of the major collectors of contemporary Italian abstract art, developing a deep relationship of patronage and friendship with the artists. This experience has its pinnacle in the exhibition Modern painters of the Cavellini collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1957. In the 1960s Cavellini resumed his activity as an artist, with an ample production spanning from Neo-Dada to performance art to mail art, of which he became one of the prime exponents with the Exhibitions at Home and the Round Trip works. In 1971 he invented autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upon which he acted to create a deliberate popular history surrounding his existence. He also authored the books Abstract Art (1959), Man painter (1960), Diary of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1975), Encounters/Clashes in the Jungle of Art (1977) and Life of a Genius (1989).
Mirella Bentivoglio was an Italian sculptor, poet, performance artist and curator.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia was a pioneer in Italian Futurist photography and Futurist cinema. A versatile and intellectual artist with wide interests, he wrote about film, theatre, and dance.
Aldo Lado is an Italian film and television director, screenwriter and author. He is known internationally for his contributions to the giallo genre during the 1970's, through his films Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Who Saw Her Die? (1972). Several of his films are considered cult classics.
Eugenio Miccini was an Italian artist and writer, considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry.
Susanna Parigi, born in Florence, is an Italian singer, songwriter, pianist and author.
Emilio Isgrò is an Italian artist and writer, known for his use of the erasure technique in his art works.
Elettra Stamboulis in Bologna, Italy, is an art curator, high school principal, writer, and comic writer.
Beatrice Monroy is an Italian writer and dramatist.
Giorgio Di Genova is an Italian art historian, critic and curator, mostly known for being the author of History of Italian Art of the Twentieth Century.
Emma Baeri is a Sicilian feminist historian and essayist. She has played an active role in organizing feminist political action and literary life in Italy along with her academic career.
Graziella Sonnino Carpi was an Italian feminist and peace activist in the interwar period. She was a member of the Italian Unione Femminile Nazionale and a delegate to the 1919 Women's Conference.
Lidia Cirillo is an Italian writer and socialist feminist.
Luciana Percovich is an Italian non-fiction writer, a teacher, a translator and director of a series of books on women's history and spirituality. She was born in Gorizia, Italy in a Mitteleuropean Italian speaking family forced to leave Fiume, Rijeka at the end of World War II, with cultural and geographical roots in Austria and Dalmatia, she spent her childhood and adolescence in Gorizia attending Classical studies. At the age of 18, she went to Milan to complete her education, and there she graduated in 1972. She has been defined as "a traveller between worlds and a weaver of space-time connections for her ability of embracing distant wide horizons with a loving insight".
Whatever I've done, it's been conceived within women's relations, in presence of women's bodies and in the flowing of awakened women's emotions.
Lea Vergine, born Lea Buoncristiano, was an Italian art critic, essayist and curator.
Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Boglino was a Danish-Italian painter, active in Denmark and Italy.
Aldo Agatino Forbice was an Italian radio host and journalist. As a radio host he was most well known for hosting the Rai Radio 1 program Zapping from 1994 to 2012. He was also an author of long-form essay novels, poetry compilations, and several fiction books, many of which won literary awards in Italy.
Demetrio Paparoni is an Italian art critic, curator, writer, and editor who has taught History of Modern Art and History of Contemporary Art at the University of Catania.
Elena Gianini Belotti was an Italian writer, teacher, and activist.
Virginia Tango Piatti was an Italian writer, pacifist, anti-fascist, and women's rights activist. Born in Florence, the family settled in Rome in 1897, where she was briefly schooled by nuns. She moved to Milan in 1904 to help with the education of her sister's children and met the painter Antonio Piatti, whom she married in 1905. Although she had begun writing around the time of her marriage, it became her livelihood in 1911, when she separated from her husband. She adopted the pen name Agar at that time, publishing poems, children's stories and articles about pacifism in various journals. Her outspokenness against fascism led to her registration as a subversive and her self-exile to Paris.
