Lovers, witches or monferrine duchesses forgotten by history

The lack of culture as the worst enemy of women. The historian and journalist is convinced of this Cinzia Montagna who reconstructs in “Women out of history – Voices of a Monferrato to be discovered” the story of nine women, little known or neglected and who also left a strong mark on the events of Monferrato.

The protagonists of the book, published by the Cultural Circle I Marchesi del Monferrato, are the rAegina Christina of Sweden, whose visit to Casale is told, Valentina Fraccio, condemned as an untrice, Sicheta of Asti, the heiress without inheritance, Camilla Faà di Bruno, the duchess denied, Maria Maddalena Natta Callori di Casale, the bulky lover of the last Duke of Mantua, Bettina from Nice Monferrato, the rebel to the ius …