Dora Melegari

Born in 1849, she was an Italian writer often known simply as Dora Melegari. She was the daughter of the Italian statesman Luigi Amedeo Melegari and spent much of her life in an international cultural world, with strong ties to France as well as Italy.

She wrote novels, essays, and literary criticism, and her work appeared under the name Dora Melegari as well as the pseudonym "Forsan." Her writing is often associated with the refined, intellectual atmosphere of late 19th- and early 20th-century European literary life.

Melegari died in 1924. Though not widely remembered today, she was recognized in her own era and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.