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Biography
Ada Negri was born in Lodi, Italy to Giuseppe Negri and Vittoria Cornalba. She attended Lodi’s normal School for Girls and earned an elementary teacher’s diploma. At eighteen, she became a school teacher in the village of Motta Visconti near the Ticino river, in Pavia. Her first volume of lyrics, Fatalità (1892) confirmed her reputation as a poet and she was appointed to the normal school in Milan. Her second book of poems, Tempeste (1896), describes the helpless tragedy of the forsaken poor.

Ada Negri (3 February 1870 – 11 January 1945) was an Italian poet and writer. She is also remembered for being the first and only woman to be admitted to the Academy of Italy.

Biography
Ada Negri was born in Lodi, Italy in a humble family: her father was Giuseppe Negri, a coachman, and her mother was Vittoria Cornalba, a weaver.

Her childhood was characterized by her relationship with her grandmother, Giuseppina "Peppina" Panni, who worked as a Caretaker at the noble Barni family, in which palace's gatehouse Ada spent much time alone, observing the passage of people, as described in the autobiographical novel Stella Mattutina (1921).