Ilda Mizzan

Ilda Mizzan (1885 – June 1922) was an Italian irredentist and painter, best known for being interned at the hands of the Austrians during World War I and her consequential death, as well as for being the wife of Italian historian Francesco Salata.

During World War I, Mizzan was apprehended and interned by the Austrians, along with her young daughter, due to the anti-Austrian activities of her husband and fellow irredentist Francesco Salata. During her captivity she contracted tuberculosis and died of it a few years after the end of the war.

Biography Ilda Mizzan was born in 1885 in Pisino, Istria, the daughter of a wealthy Triestine pharmacist. In Pisino, a homage, designed by Mizzan, was paid to D'Annunzio, D'Annunzio gave to Mizzan a copy of his Francesca da Rimini, dedicating it to her. she celebrated her marriage to Salata, who was 9 years her senior,

At the beginning of 1915, already into World War I but before Italy's entry in the conflict, her husband was sent to Rome thanks to an Austro-Hungarian mandate for the importation to Istria of extra provisions. He then decided to stay there, to fight for Italy's entry into the war, which would indeed occur a few months later. They, along with Salata's family, were interned in Mittergraben near Oberhollabrunn.