Carolina Luzzatto

Carolina Luzzatto (née: Sabbadini; 1837–1919) was a journalist and writer from Austria-Hungary. She was one of the early female newspaper directors in Italy and was part of the irredentist liberal-national journalists of the period.

Biography She was born in Trieste on 29 November 1837 to the Sabbadini family of Jewish religion and of Sephardic origin. She directed the newspaper L’Isonzo from 1878 to 1880 and became the director of the newspapers Il Raccoglitore and L’Imparziale in 1880.

In 1915 Luzzatto was arrested at age 78 due to her commitment to the irredentist cause. She was buried at the Valdirose cemetery in the Nova Gorica suburb of Rožna Dolina.