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Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

1752–1799 · 18th century

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a Neapolitan poet and journalist, born in Rome to a Portuguese noble family, who became a leading figure of the Parthenopean Republic of 1799. Once a member of the royal court, she turned to republicanism and edited the republic's official newspaper, the Monitore Napoletano. After the royalist reconquest she was hanged in Naples in August 1799.

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
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