From
Cristina
to
Samantha
, passing through
Tina
and
Nilde
but also
Elisabetta (Casellati)
, the first woman president of the Senate.
The first female premier in the history of the Republic in her speech in the House cites her personal pantheon of female figures.
She calls them name by name, thanking them for being the ones who "built with the boards of their own example the ladder that today allows me to climb and break the heavy glass roof placed over our heads".
The first is
Cristina Trivulzio of Belgioioso
"elegant organizer of lounges and barricades" defines her as Meloni.
She is a noblewoman protagonist of the Risorgimento who had contacts with all the major protagonists of the time and subsidized insurrections.
She organized - among other things - a battalion in Naples to contribute to the Five Days of Milan.
Together with her, Meloni quotes Rosalie Montmasson "stubborn to the point of starting with the Thousand".
Crispi's wife, the only female participant in Garibaldi's expedition.
But the revolution - Meloni seems to say - is also made on a bicycle.
Here, then, is
Alfonsina Strada
, the first woman to compete in the Giro d'Italia who "pedaled hard against the wind of prejudice".
Then there are
Maria Montessori,
with her revolutionary pedagogical method, and
Grazia Deledda
, writer of the Nobel Prize for literature "who with their example opened the gates of education for girls throughout the country".
In her speech also two partisan women,
Tina Anselmi
, first woman minister of the Republic and
Nilde Jotti,
first woman at the head of Montecitorio.
A tribute, then, to
Oriana Fallaci,
the first Italian woman sent to war and two other journalists, the correspondents killed while doing their work:
Mariagrazia Cutuli
and
Ilaria Alpi
.
And again the director of CERN, physicist
Fabiola Giannotti,
the first woman at the helm of the Consulta,
Marta Cartabia
and the first woman president of the Senate,
Elisabetta Casellati.
There is also room for
Samantha Cristoforetti
, the first European female commander of the International Space Station.
And again the nobel prize winner
Rita Levi Montalcini
.
Finally
Chiara Corbello Fiorillo
.
The young woman, also blessed for having carried on a pregnancy with a smile, depriving herself of treatment for a tumor, has become, among other things, a symbol for life.
"Thank you - it is recommended to them in closing - for having demonstrated the value of Italian women, as I hope to be able to do too".