Ernesta Bittanti Battisti 150 years after her death

Known mainly as Cesare Battisti's wife, she became, after her husband's death in 1916, the "most important widow in Italy".

Today, Ernesta Bittanti deserves to be studied independently for her ability to influence the society, culture and politics of her time with her commitment and writings.
In this History Lab special, Giuseppe Ferrandi, director of the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino (Trentino history museum foundation), interviews her nephew Marco Battisti to bring to light a completely new dimension of Ernesta Bittanti, with contributions by researcher Beatrice Primerano, who traces her life.

Her life's aim was not only to remember and highlight her husband's thought: she had intellectual positions and experiences of her own, and often took non-conformist positions.

The themes Ernesta Bittanti dealt with ranged from literature to the arts, from the condition of women to the problems of social decay, from the autonomist and regional question to national politics; they are all kept in various publications, but above in hundreds of articles in local and national newspapers and magazines