Giannina Mili was a poet (Teramo 1825-Firenze 1888). From a very young age she showed a great propensity for literary studies, in which she was taught by Stefano de Martinis, a poet and literary scholar also from Teramo. She began to exhibit her work in public in her hometown in 1847, her success in this endeavour helped to establish her reputation as a poet. She would improvise on themes put forward by the audience, and she would also compose patriotic verses through which she glorified the unification of Italy. Between 1850 and 1860 she travelled around Italy, frequenting various literary spaces??, making contact with Manzoni, De Sanctis, Villari, Parti, Settembrini. In 1865 she was appointed school inspector for Naples and Puglia by the Ministry of Education and in 1872 she was called to Rome to direct the newly established Scuola normale femminile per la formazione delle maestre. In 1876 she married the school inspector Ferdinando Cassone and left her job to be follow her husband on his travels. After the death of the latter(Once the travels had finished), she returned to Florence where she spent the last years of her life. She left behind a substantial and interesting correspondence and numerous poems.
