Pensionati e convitti femminili nell'età dell'emancipazione della donna.

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay presents one of the characteristic aspects of higher female schooling, which took place, starting with the foundation, from the early 1800s, of specific institutes for women's education. These colleges, which spread to all the towns of the Italian province, but which took as their model some of the great institutions of the capital cities of the pre-unification states: from the College of the Maidens of Milan, to the Annunziata of Florence; they had a broad study program, generally organized around literary higher education, but which also kept the so-called ars d'agrements, embroidery, dancing, acting, and everything that was considered an education. list of girls. These institutes contributed greatly to the raising of female culture and the liberation of women, especially the upper classes, in contemporary society.