Name of Object:

A petition to collect signatures in support of an appeal to the Italian parliament to grant women the right to vote, drawn up by Anna Maria Mozzoni

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Library of Modern and Contemporary History

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Holding Institution (original language):

Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea

Date of Object:

1877

Author:

Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837, Rescaldina (Milano)-1920, Rome)

Description:

With this appeal, Anna Maria Mozzoni and other women asked members of parliament to leave aside “academic digressions” on women’s nature and on their “mission” and to “consider we [women] only in our relation to the State, for what we really are: citizens, taxpayers, and able” who deserved the right to vote.
Italian women’s campaign to get the right to vote gained momentum at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th but it wasn’t successful until 1946.
Anna Maria Mozzoni was the most brilliant Italian feminist activist of the second half of the 19th century. She authored books, founded journals and associations, and incessantly campaigned in favour of women’s rights.

Type of Object

Leaflet

Citation of this web page:

Rosanna De Longis "A petition to collect signatures in support of an appeal to the Italian parliament to grant women the right to vote, drawn up by Anna Maria Mozzoni" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;42;en

Prepared by: Rosanna De Longis
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 042