Emilia Errera

Emilia Errera (May 15, 1866 – December 12, 1901) was an Italian teacher, essayist, and literary critic known for her historical analyses and her early Italian scholarship on Charles Dickens. Educated in Venice and Florence, she taught history, geography, and Italian in schools before establishing herself as a contributor to Italian literary magazines of the late 19th century.

Her work was noted for its moral perspective on literature and its emphasis on themes of national identity, civic virtue, and historical understanding. After her death in 1901, her writings were collected and published posthumously by her family.

Biography Emilia, was born on 15 May 1866 in Trieste, Austrian Empire to a Jewish family. Her parents were Cesare, a Venetian, and mother Luigia Fano from Mantua. Her siblings included writer Rosa Errera (1864-1946), brother Carlo Errera (1867-1936), and sister Anna Errera (1870-1940).

Emilia graduated teacher training in Venice and attended the Institute of Magisterium in Florence, where her instructors included P. Villari and Enrico Nencioni, who had taught Italian literature there since 1884 and who passed on to her a love of history and literature.

Much later, in 1900, Emilia credited Nencioni, who was regarded as a connoisseur and interpreter of English writers, with fostering her lifelong interest in writers such as Charles Dickens (she referred to him as Carlo Dickens). She dedicated a commemorative article to Nencioni in the Florentine magazine Il Marzocco full of gratitude and giving him credit for passing along his teachings.

Her essays about Charles Dickens (whose name in Italian translated to Carlo Dickens) became a notable contribution to the language, and her biographical-critical essays on the writer were published widely. According to Paesano,

Death Emilia Errera died of pneumonia on 12 December 1901 in Milan at the age of 35.

Selected works According to worldcat.org, these are the most widely held works by Emilia Errera in libraries:

Gli amici di Dante (Book), one edition, published in 1890, in Italian Sulle Filippiche di Alessandro Tassoni, one edition, published in 1890, in Italian Gli amici di Dante, one edition, published in 1890, in Italian La pietra del paragone politico di Traiano Boccalini (Book), two editions, published in 1891, in Italian Carlo Dickens, one edition, published in 1895, in Italian Carlo Dickens. Estratto dalla: "Rivista per le Signorine." (Book) one edition, published in 1895, in French Carlo Dickens, four editions, published in 1903, in Italian